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Collection  de 
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Technical  and  Bibliographic  Notas/Notas  tf  chniquas  at  bibliographiquas 


Tha  Instituta  has  attamptad  to  obtain  tha  bast 
original  copy  availabia  for  filming.  Faaturas  of  this 
copy  which  may  ba  bibliographically  uniqua, 
which  may  altar  any  of  tha  imagas  in  tha 
reproduction,  or  which  may  significantly  change 
the  usual  method  of  filming,  are  checked  below. 


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I — I    Couverture  restaur^  at/ou  pelliculAe 

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Bound  with  other  material/ 
Relii  avac  d'autras  documents 


Tight  binding  may  cause  shadows  or  distortion 
along  interior  margin/ 

Lm  re  liure  serrie  peut  causer  de  I'ombre  ou  de  la 
distorsion  le  long  de  la  marge  intdrieure 

Blank  leaves  added  during  restoration  may 
appear  within  the  text.  Whenever  possible,  these 
have  been  omitted  from  filming/ 
II  se  peut  que  certaines  pages  blanches  ajout6es 
lors  d'une  restauration  apparaissent  dans  le  texte, 
mais,  lorsque  cela  Atait  possible,  ces  pages  n'ont 
pas  M  fiimies. 


L'Institut  a  microfilm*  la  maiUeur  axemplaire 
qu'il  lui  a  M  possible  de  se  procurer.  Las  details 
de  cet  exemplaira  qui  sont  peut-Atre  uniques  du 
point  de  vue  bibliographique.  qui  peuvent  modifier 
une  image  reproduite,  ou  qui  peuvent  exiger  una 
modification  dans  la  mithode  normaie  da  filmage 
sont  indiqute  ci-dessous. 


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Transparence 

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Only  edition  available/ 
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slips,  tissues,  etc.,  have  been  refilmed  to 
ensure  the  best  possible  image/ 
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obscurcies  par  un  feuillat  d'errata,  una  pelure, 
etc.,  ont  iti  filmies  d  nouvaau  da  fapon  d 
obtenir  la  meilleure  image  possible. 


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Tha  copy  filmad  h«r«  has  baan  raproducad  thanks 
to  tha  ganarosity  of: 

Brock  University 
St.  Catharine! 


L'axamplaira  film4  fut  raproduit  grica  k  la 
ginArositA  da: 

Brock  University 
St.  Catharines 


Tha  imagas  sppaaring  hara  ara  tha  bast  quality 
possibia  considaring  tha  condition  and  lagibllity 
of  tha  original  copy  and  in  kaaping  with  tha 
filming  contract  spacifications. 


Original  copias  in  printad  papar  eovars  ara  filmad 
baginning  with  tha  front  eovar  and  anding  on 
tha  last  paga  with  a  printad  or  illustratad  impraa- 
sion,  or  tha  back  covar  whan  appropriata.  All 
othar  original  copias  ara  filmad  baginning  on  tha 
first  paga  with  a  printad  or  illustratad  impraa- 
sion,  and  anding  on  tha  last  paga  with  a  printad 
or  illustratad  imprassion. 


Tha  last  racordad  frama  on  aach  microficha 
shall  contain  tha  symbol  — »•  (moaning  "CON- 
TINUED"), or  tha  symbol  y  (manning  "END"), 
whichavar  applias. 

IMaps,  platas,  charts,  ate.,  may  ba  filmad  at 
diffarant  raduction  ratioa.  Thosa  too  iarga  to  ba 
antiraly  inciudad  in  ona  axposura  ara  filmad 
baginning  in  tha  uppar  laft  hand  cornar,  laft  to 
right  and  top  to  bottom,  as  many  framaa  aa 
raquirad.  Tha  following  diagrama  illustrata  tha 
mathod: 


Laa  imagas  suivantaa  ont  4tA  raproduitas  avac  la 
plua  grand  soin,  compta  tanu  da  la  condition  at 
da  la  nattat*  da  l'axamplaira  film*,  at  an 
conformity  avac  las  conditions  du  contrat  da 
filmaga. 

Laa  axamplairaa  originaux  dont  la  couvartura  an 
papiar  ast  imprimte  sont  fiimAs  an  commandant 
par  la  pramiar  plat  at  an  tarminant  soit  par  la 
darniAra  paga  qui  comporta  una  amprainta 
d'imprassion  ou  d'illustration,  soit  par  la  sacond 
plat,  salon  la  ess.  Tous  laa  autras  axamplairaa 
originaux  sont  filmta  an  commandant  par  la 
pramiAra  paga  qui  comporta  una  amprainta 
d'imprassion  ou  d'illustration  at  an  tarminant  par 
la  darnlAra  paga  qui  comporta  una  talla 
amprainta. 

Un  daa  symbolas  suivants  apparaftra  sur  la 
damiira  imaga  da  chaqua  microficha,  salon  la 
cas:  la  symbols  — »>  signifia  "A  SUiVRE".  la 
symbols  V  signifia  "FIN". 

Lss  cartas,  planchaa.  tablaaux,  ate,  pauvant  *tra 
fiimia  A  daa  taux  da  rMuction  diff«rants. 
Lorsqua  la  documant  aat  trop  grand  pour  Atra 
raproduit  an  un  saui  clichA,  11  aat  film«  A  partir 
da  I'angia  sup^riaur  gaucha,  da  gaucha  A  droita, 
at  da  haut  9n  bas,  an  pranant  la  nombra 
d'imagas  nteassaira.  Las  diagrammas  suivants 
illustrant  la  mAthoda. 


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1873. 


finteiMd  according  to  act  of  Oongress  in  the  year  1872,  by 

E.  B.  TBEAT, 
In  the  office  of  the  Librarian  of  Gongresa  at  WashingtoB 


PREFACE. 


In  former  treatises,  which  have  been  very  kindly  re- 
ceived by  the  reading  pubUc,  the  writer  endeavored  to 
lUustrate  the  Power,  Wisdom  and  Goodness  of  God  as 
Been  in  his  wonder-working  Providence,  and  in  his  no 
less  wonderful  works  of  creation.  The  foUowing  pages 
are  devoted  to  the  great  Antagonistic  Power,  that  riots 
in  the  Apostasy-that  reigns  among  the  children  of  dis- 
obedience. 

We  have  seen  how  completely  benevolence  pervades 
all  the  works  of  the  Divine  hand-how  aU  the  works  of 
creation-all  the  variations,  nses  and  adaptations  of  these 
works,  eM  all  the  ways  of  Providence  if  left  nnper- 
verted   to  work   out   their   own   legitimate   ends,  are 
instinct  with  the  Goodness  of  God.    We  shaU  see  on  the 
other  hand,  how  a  great  opposing  Power,  by  usurpa- 
tion the  God  of  this  world,  has  been  aUowed  to  try  his 
hand  at  the  management  of  the  affau^  of  this  lower 
world.    We  have  seen  what  God  has  done;  and  from 
what  he  has  done  we  may  verjr  safely  infer  that  the  end 
to  be  achieved  by  the  Divine  plans  is  one  of  infinite  be- 
nevolence-that  it  involves  the  greatest  amount  of  hap- 
pmess  to  man,  as  weU  as  the  supreme  glory  of  God 
We  shall  now  see  what  Satan,  armed  with  power,  and 


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"  PREFACE. 

pervaded  by  the  poison  of  sin,  can  do-what  he  is  doing 
and  what,  if  not  foiled,  he  wiU  do.  He  has  been  the 
ceaseless  systematic  opposer  of  aU  good.  His  chief 
business  has  been  to  pervert  the  works,,  the  providences 
and  the  grace  of  God.  Malignity,  misery,  characterize 
the  one  system  ;  benevolence  and  infinite  happiness  the 
other. 

And  never  perhaps  could  we  more  fittingly  caU  atten- 
tion to  the  doings  of  the  redoubtable  Hero  of  our  tale. 
Never  was  his  Satanic  Majesty  more  thoroughly  roused 
to  a  desperate  onset  upon  the  sons  of  men.    "The 
Devil  is  come  down  unto  you,  having  great  wrath,  be- 
cause he  knoweth  that  he  hath  but  a  short  time." 
Most  unmistakably  do  we  trace  his  foot-prints  in  the 
events  of  the  last  few  years— as  the  instigator  of  the 
Slave-holders' Rebellion:  as  the  prime  and  successful 
advocate  in  the  late  (Ecumenical  Council  at  Eome,  of 
the  Dogma  of  Papal  Infallibility ;  as  chief  leader  in  the 
late    Commune   Rebellion   in  Paris;   and  more  con- 
spicuously yet  as  a  true  inspiration  of  the  political  cor- 
ruption in  New  York.    Never  before  did  he  come  down 
with  so  «  great  wrath ;"  never  were  his  acts  more  deter- 
mined and  daring.    When  in  the  history  of  our  race 
were  fraud,  violence,  earthquakes,  tempests,  murders, 
intemperance,  so  rife  in  our  world?    The  prince  and 
power  of  the  air  seems,  as  never  before,  let  loose  to  de- 
vastate and  destroy. 

The  rightful  Proprietor  of  this  world  no  doubt  permits 
the  Adversary  to  exhibit  the  malignity  and  mischief 
and  final  ruin  of  sin  that  its  infinite  evil  may  be  made 


PBBFAOE.  m 

known    to   the   countless    millions   of    the    Universe 
throughout  eternity.    The  vast  resources  of  this  world, 
its  riches,  honors,  learning,  associated  action  apd  influ 
ence,  manners,  customs   and  fashion,  political  power, 
eloquence,  pdeiay   and    song,   are,  within    prescribed 
limits,  put  at  his  command,  that  it  may  appear  what 
wretched  use  he  will  make  of  them ;  what  misery  and  de- 
gradation, what  wickedness  and  destruction  of  all  good 
and  happiness,  his  rule   can  produce.    These  are  all 
sources  of  power,  and  are  designed  to  contribute  most  in- 
fluentially  to  the  happiness  of  man  and  the  honor  of  God. 
We  shall  see,  as  we  proceed,  what  utter  perversion  the 
god  of  this  world  has  made  of  all  these  elements  of  power 
and  influence.    How  he  has  perverted  every  blessing  of 
Heaven  and  made  it  a  curse. 

The  task  proposed  in  the  present  treatise  is  to  trace, 
within  certain  limits,  the  foot-prints  of  the  great  Enemy 
of  all  good,  that  we  may,  by  witnessing  the  handiwork 
of  his  malignity  among  the  sons  of  men,  perceive  by 
way  of  contrast  the  strange  benevolence  of  God,  and  be 
constrained  more  and  more  to  admire  the  goodness  of 
that  wonderful  Bemg  whose  purposes  are  all  formed  in 
benevolence,  and  aU  whose  working  is  characterized  by 
the  same  good  will  to  man. 

A  few  topics  wiU  serve  as  an  illustration  of  our 
thought.  It  will  be  sufficient  to  inquire  what  engines 
for  evil  and  mischief,  in  the  hands  of  sin  and  Satan, 
have  been  false  religions;  wealth;  learning;  the  arts  J 
science;  what  use  has  been  made  of  governmental 
power— of  fraternities  and  associated  actions— of  men's 


PREFACE. 


amusements  and  recreations ;  how  he  has  but  too  often 

perverted    and    ombittored    the    domestic    relations 

perverted  the  Press— scourged  the  race  with  intemper- 
ance, war,  and  by  an  endless  variety  of  diseases,  pes- 
tilence and  famine,  the  sure  consequences  of  the 
apostasy  as  entailed  on  a  suflFering  race.  Indeed,  how 
he  has  opened  on  a  defenceless  race  the  real  Pan- 
dora's box,  and  done  all  he  could  to  extinguish  the  last 
ray  of  hope  and  happiness  in  our  sin  smitten-world. 

We  have  largely  explored  that  great  antagonistic 
system  of  sin  and  misery  which  the  great  Adversary 
has  set  "p  in  our  world,  and  by  which  he  has  impiously 
confronted  the  rising  empire  of  our  Immanuel,  contest- 
ing, step  by  step,  every  scheme  of  advancement ;  and, 
where  he  cannot  "rule,"  determined,  by  a  wholesale 
perversion,  to  "  ruin." 

The  author  takes  pleasure  in  acknowledging  his 
indebtedness  to  several  eminent  writers,  and  if  credit  is 
not  always  given,  his  apology  is,  that,  as  he  hao  drawn 
from  his  copious  notes  in  the  preparation  of  this  volume 
he  has  often  found  himself  unable  to  identify  his 
authorities ;  many  of  the  notes  being  jottings  made 
years  ago,  and  often  not  credited  to  any  particular 
source— and  perhaps  without  quotation  marks.  They 
were  noted  down  as  mere  memoranda,  without  the  inten- 
tion of  retailing  them  in  this  manner  through  the  Press 


CONTENTS. 


[For  fall  Index  see  olo«e  of  book.] 

I  The  DevU  the  God  of  this  World,— Vnio  ia  '*** 

he?— What  is  he?— Where   ia  he  ?— His  mental, 
moral  and  physical  powers 17 

F.  Magnitude  and  Mischief  of  Sin,— Thet 

cause  of  all  human  woe — Why  it  is  permitted— 
What  hath  sin  done  ? — ^Its  effect  upon  divine  and 
human  government,  and  our  relation  to  God — Men- 
tally — Morally — Socially 42 

m  Uie  DevU  in  Bible  Ttmea,— Before  the  deluge 
— In  Old  Testament  times — He  turns  the  nations  of 
the  earth  to  idolatry — In  New  Testament  times — 
His  corruption  of  the  Church 68 

IV.  The  Devil  in  the  Early  Christian 
Church. — Its  persecutions  and  martyrs  during 
Apostolic  times  and  the  Beformation— Corruption 
and  priestly  usurpation 78 

V.  Hie  DevU  in  War,—Tke  sacrifice  of  lifo  in  an- 

cient and  modern  wars — Statistics  of  Christian  na- 
tions— War  debts  of  different  nations 96 

VL  War — Continued. — Its  untold  evils — Modem  wars 
— ^Their  wholesale  destruction — Demoralizing  ef- 
fects—The duty  of  Christians 123 

Vn.  Intemperance,— A  stronghold  of  the  Devil- 
Its  influence  on  labor,  industry  and  morals — Its 
cost  of  money  and  life — Statistics  fi-om  England, 
France  and  America isi 

Vm.  Intemperance  —  Continued.  —  Its  physical, 


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^^"^  CONTENTS, 

author  of  the  saddest  calamities  on  land  anc  .ea, 
and  in  the  eyeiyday  walks  of  life  .  ...,, ^  ^I'd 

IX.  J%e  Perversion  of  Tntellect.~Uind  tlie 
prune  mover  of  aU  action  and  power-Literature 
science,  history,  music,  and  their  sad  perrersio  s. .'.  194 

X.  The  Perversion  of  Wedlth.-^Uon&j  a  great 

PC  ^er  in  ttie  hands  of  Satan-Cost  of  sin.  pride, 
aubifaon.  luxuiy.  extravagance,  war,  rum.  tobacco^ 

215 

XL  me  Perversion  of  Wealth.-Gonimy^.^ 
Moom  extravagance-Expense  of  crime,  amuse- 
m^nts  and  false  religions 242 

™'if^  -P«»-vc^«^»  of  Wealth.-Gontinued.^ 
Kegal^nd  ai-isiocratic  extraT^agance-Great  estates- 
Temptations  of  rich.«-Protestant  extravagance  and 
wafite  of  wealth  in  matters  of  religion 263 

™^>^'^  |*^»^er«ion  of  the  JPress.-Ferio^dcai 
Pres^Rehgious  Press-The  Press  catering  to 
frauds,  corruption,  licentiousness  and  infidelity- 
Bomance.  fiction,  music  and  song 292 

:^y.  Satan  in  False  Iieligions.^Theiv  origin 
history  and  pLilosopbj-Their  relation  to  the  one 

true  rehgion 

314 

XV.  False  :Religions.~Continued.-.mB'uono  reU- 
gion-Progressive  revelation-Christianity  a  reli^on 
for  man  ...  ^"6^*1 

337 

XYL  Modern  SpuHoiis  neligions.-Theirpvao- 
ticftl  tendencies  and  results-Influence  on  character 

society  and  governments oe« 

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CONTENTS. 


Moa 


869 


^"^^.^^V  *^  ^*«'  CounterfeiU-Qr^Blt 

tr^s  which  Borne  has  preserved,  yet  perverted 
— Itesembhng^  Paganism  ....< 

UNlILFcase  :Beligion8~-Momani8m.-~How 

indebted   to  Paganism— Festivals—Monkery—Ro- 
saiy— Idolatry— Purgatory ^j 

XIX.  BomanUmr-GorUvnved.  —  A      non-teaching 
Priesthood— No  Bible— A  persecuting  Church  ....  403 

XX.  Fatee  ^eUgiona—Jeauitiam.—Chanaber  of 

the  Fraternity-Jesuits   in  Amerioa-Their  spirit 
and  policy  unchanged ^g 

XXL  2%«  nevU  in  JMran.-ffis  appetites,  aspira- 
tions,  capabiUties  and  susceptibilities  perverted. ...  436 

XXtt  Satan  in  the  Marriage  :Relation.— 

Sanctity  of  Marriage-Its  vital  relation  to  Society, 
the  State  and  Church-Easy  divorce  fatal  to  them 
all ....... 

467 

XXm  TheDevilln  **Zatier  2Yme».>>-Some  of 
his  most  recent  doings— The  late  Civil  War— Com- 
mune Insurrection  in  Paris-The  Devil  in  New  Toik 
-Mots  of  1863  and  1871-Tammany  Bing-Frauds 
—Modem  Infidelity .-. 

XXIV.   Tet  Later  Demonstrationa  of  the 

X>^.-Cnme  in  New  York-Profanation  of  the 
Sabbath— Opening  libraries-War  upon  the  Bible 

—Upon  our  common  schools— Frauds— Licentious 
literature 

^^-  ^  liemedy.-*'  The  restitution  of  aU  things  " 
--The  final  and  complete  conquest— The  usurper 
Reposed  and  cast  out  forever-The  earth  renewed— 
Eden  restored-The  universal  reign  of  righteousness 
'^^V^'^<^^ 620 


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THE  DEVIL  THE  GOD  OF  THIS  WORLD 


WHO  HE  IS,  WHAT  HE  IS,  WHERE  HE  IS-ATTRIBUTES  AND 
OHAEAOTERISTICS  — CAPABILITIES  OF  LOCOMOTION  —  HIS 
MENTAL,  MORAL,  AND  PHYSICAL  POWERS— HIS  WILES  AND 
DELUSIONS. 

It  is  a  delightful  task  to  Mow  the  footsteps  of  a  friend 
to  meet  everywhere  marks  of  his  favor,  and  to  be  cheered 
by  the  kind  words  of  his  welcome.    But  not  so  when  we 
faU  m  the  wake  of  an  enemy.    His  presence  speaks  no 
cheer,  and  he  leaves  behind  him  no  marks  of  favor     In 
tracing  along  the  line  of  this  world's  history  the  good  hand 
of  God,  we  feel  we  are  in  company  with  a  Father  and  a 
Fnend ;  yet  with  one  that  worketh  aU  things  after  the 
counsel  of  his  own  will.    All  his  purposes  originate  in  the 
exhaustlessfountam  of  his  love;  and  in  their  sure  execu- 
tion  and  infinite  benevolence  is  the  end  of  all  his  working 
And  though  It  IS  a  delightful  truth  that  there  is  no  being 
in  all  the  universe  that  can  frustrate  these  purposes,  yet  it 
IS  equaUy  true  that  there  is  another  being  in  the  universe 
Of  great  power  and  of  mighty  inteUect,  who.  though  not 
mfimte  or  eternal,  is  allowed  to  exercise  a  veiy  great  con- 
trol m  the  affairs  of  the  world.    And  so  univfrsal  and 
controlling  IS  his  mfluence  that  he  is  caUed  the  "god  of 
this  world.  ° 

The  notable  personage  in  question  is  known  by  a  great 
Taneiy  of  sigmficant  names.    Among  these  are  Apollyon, 


('■     i 


18 


THE  FOOT-PRINTS  OP  SATAN. 


the  Destroyer,  Lucifer,  Son  of  the  Morning,  or  the  Morn- 
ing Star,  denoting  his  exalted  station ;  the  old  Dragon, 
Serpent,  or  unclean  spirit;  Satan,  or  the  great  enemy*; 
Belial,  or  destitution  of  aU  goodness ;  Tei^^oter,  Beelzebub, 
and  the  Prince  of  Devils;  Enemy,  Accusar  of  the  breth- 
ren, and  a  Liar.  He  is  also  called  Sinner,  Murderer,  Ad- 
versary, Beast,  Deceiver,  Angel  of  the  bottomless  pit, 
Pnnoe  of  Darkness,  Lion,  going  about  seeking  whom  he 
may  devour. 

The  BevU  the  God  of  this  World.— The  term,  God 
of  this  world,  most  obviously  implies  that  the  Devil  acts  a 
Z.^'T  <Jon?picuou8  Mrtin  th  of  this  worljl-that.^al 

least,  duiingjhe^apostate  condition  of  our  rajeTEBri^fl 
^®'®~^*^  *  wide  dominionoverjhe  affairs  "of  man.  It 
wirceffiHIy  have  the~^inrof  he^^lT^^^i^f^P^ical 
theme,  to  trace,  as  we  may  be  able,  the  footsteps  of  this 
monster  king;  to  inquire  into  the  extent  and  character  of 
his  dominion  that  we  may  see  where  his  great  strength 
lies. 

Such  considerations  will  readily  show  what  our  world 

would  at  once  become  if  this  great  empire  of  sin  and 

Satan  were  destroyed,  and  all  things  aUowed  to  return  to 

their  proper  and  primeval  use,  as  they  would  be  if  sin  had 

no  dominion.    We  shaU  therefore  make  it  our  business  in 

the  foUowing  pages  to  mstitute,  at  least,  a  partial  research 

into  the  records  of  his  Satanic  Majesty's  kingdom,  that  we 

may  see  what  desolations  he  hath  made  in  the  earth ;  and 

that  we  may  catch  a  glimpse  at  least  of  that  perfect  joy 

and  peace  and  prosperity  which  await  our  earth  when  this 

vile  dominion  shaU  be  no  more.    We  rely  on  the  promise 

that  the  reign  of  sin  shall  come  to  an  end,  that  the  earth 

shall  yet  return  to  her  Eden   state,  and  Emanuel,  as 

Proprietor  and  King,  shall  reign  forever. 

In  the  present  volume  we  shall  attempt  some  matter- 
of-fact  illustrations  of  the  Empire  op  Sin  as  it  has  from 


THE  DEVIL  THE  OOD  OF  THIS  WORLD.  I9 

the  beginning  been  set  up  in  our  world  by  the  Great 
Master  Spirit  of  the  apostasy.     Since  Satan  has   by 
usurpation  on  his  part  and  by  permission  on  the  part  of 
the  rightful  King,  become  the  god  of  this  world,  we  may 
expect  that  the  empire  over  which  he  exercises  his  diri 
ful  dominion  will  be  covered  with  the  footprints  of  his 
rule,  and  that  we  should  everywhere  discover  the  out- 
goings of  his  power.    We  cannot^  look  amiss  for  the 
miserable  ravages  with  which  he  has  covered  the  earth 
The  rightful  King  has  seemed  for  a  time  to  give  up  to  the 
Devil  the  earth  and  aU  its  resources,  man  and  all  his 
susceptibilities,  faculties,  and  opportunities  for  good  that 
It  may  be  seen,  by  way  of  contrast,  what  a  perverter 
what  a  destroyer  of  aU  good  this  great  adversary  of 
man  is.  '' 

Or  we  might  perhaps  more  accurately  define  our  sub- 
ject to  be  the  Hand  op  the  Devil  in  History,  or  the 
converse,  the  palpable  antagonism  of  the  Hand  of  God 
m  History ;  the  one  a  rule  of  infinite  wisdom  and  good- 
ness, controlling  all  things  for  the  final  and  eternal  good 
of  man;  and  the  other  a  rule  of  evil,  of  maUgnity,  only 
working  out  his  final  and  complete  ruin. 

There  is  nothing  which  our  great  adversary  has  not 
monopohzed  or  perverted,  or  in  some  way  turned  to  his 
own  account.  Learning,  science,  history,  poetry,  music 
or  the  power  of  song,  have  aU  been  more  or  less  brought 
mto  subserviency  to  the  great  adversary  of  all  righteous- 
ness. Maxims,  anecdotes,  songs,  amusements,  customs 
manners,  fashions,  all  exert  a  conteoUing  influence  ove^ 

t~oTr  H  ^"*  *^''^  ®^*^^  ^^  "^^^«g«d  to  turn 
very  much  to  his  own  account.  And  besides  this  monop- 
c :  and  perversion  of  things,  which,  if  properly  used 
would  be  productive  only  of  good,  he  has  origi^ted  of  Ms 
own  certain  great  colossal  systems  of  error  and  mischief  by 
which  he  has  enslaved  the  minds  of  milUons  for  a  long 


20 


THE  POOT-PRINTS  OF  SATAN. 


.  series  of  generations.  Such  are  systems  of  Idolatry  and 
false  Religions ;  and  certain  great  arid  small  Fraternities, 
as  the  Society  of  the  Jesuits,  the  Eluminati  of  France, 
the  Friends  of  Light,  and  all  kindred  associations  which 
aie  the  strongholds  of  modem  Infidelity. 

We  shall  also  trace  the  foot-prints  of  tb  *  Devil  and  the 
horrid  reign  of  sin  in  Wab,  in  the  dreadful  ravages  of 
Intemperance,  in  the  fascinating  paths  of  Theatrical 
Amusernmts,  in  the  vile  haunts  of  Licentiousness,  and  in 
the  vitiating,  ruinous  practices  of  the  gambler.  Pride, 
extravagance,  ambition,  love  of  r  Measure,  and  all  kindred 
practices  may  in  their  place  be  l  rought  to  illustrate  our 
general  subject.  And  especially  shall  we  trace  the  foot- 
steps of  our  Foe  in  the  wide-spread  and  almost  universal 
desecration  of  wealth.  Money  is  power;  and  no  other 
intelligent  being  seems  more  fiiUf  to  appreciate  the  ^xtent 
of  this  power. 

Who  is  the  Devil  ?— But  befoi  >  we  go  into  the  >rfratter 
of  the  Devil's  doings  let  us  come  io  personalities.  Who 
is  the  Devil  ?  What  is  he,  and  wh  ^re  is  he  ?  We  owe  it 
to  an  enemy  to  treat  him  with  all  dut  courtesy.  In  dis- 
coursing of  a  friend  we  have  regard  to  hia  name,  position, 
history,  not  overlooking  his  antecedents  and  ancestry ; 
and  we  owe  much  the  same  consideration  to  au  enemy. 
We  seek  a  personal  acquaintance,  not  being  willing  to 
condemn  even  an  enemy  unheard,  not  even  our  Arch- 
enemy. If  we  can  find  no  redeeming  traits  in  his  char- 
acter on  which  to  expatiate  to  his  advantage,  or  which 
go  to  extenuate  his  universally  bad  name,  or  any  right 
doings  to  atone  for  doing  evil,  only  evil  and  evil  con- 
tinually, yet  we  may  find  something  in  his  origin,  an- 
cestry, and  antecedents  of  which  even  his  Satanic  Majesty 
may  be  proud. 

Of  his  name,  or  names,  we  can  say  nothing  ii»  hip 
favor.    All  seem  agreed,  as  we  have  seen,  to  call  him  uj 


THE  DEVIL  THE  OOD  OP  THIS  WOBLD.  jJl 

bad  names.  True,  he  is  often  oaUed  an  angel,  but  not  in 
a  connection  to  make  it  complimentary.  He  is  eld 
Ae  faUen  angel  the  angel  of  tiie  bottomless  pit,  the 
messenger  of  evil.    The  tide,  though  honorable  i^  iteetf 

brance  of  what  he  once  was.  It  recalls  his  origin  and 
former  position.  He  was  an  angel ;  Lucifer,  the  Son  of 
^e  mommg.  the  Morning  star.  No  titie  like  this  most 
honorable  one  can  convey  to  this  fallen  spirit  so  burning 
a  remembrance  of  the  past.  "urmng 

hZl^r  ""^"^  ^f^  °^  ^^^  *P°«*^«y  ^^^  ^«U  of  Satan 
beyond  the  mere  fact  of  his  mortal  sin  and  expulsio^ 

kept  not  their  first  estate  but  left  their  own  habitation 
and  are  reserved  in  everlasting  chains  under  darS 

^^nnf'"'.r"*?*'^^^**^^y-"  WithadS^bl^ 
miion  of  pathos  and  sublimity  has  Milton  represented 
the  faUeii  angel,  exclaiming :  represented 

I'arewell,  happy  fields, 
mere  joys  forever  dwelL    HaU.  horrors,  hail 
Lifeiiial  world  1  and  thou,  profoundest  HeU. 
Eeoeive  thy  new  pogseesor ;  one  who  brm« 
A  mind  not  to  be  chang'd  by  place  or  Umr 

Though  miserable  and  mischievous,  and  fully  set  to  do 

e'alT  r  *^«,^r-y-g  -U  good  fiom  t£  Le  0^^ 
earth  blasting  its  fruits,  spreading  disease,  deforming  he 

of  G^d 'all    "'T'  obUterating,  if  possible,  aU  Thought 

wl^re'no  r  ""  "'  ^'*'*"'^'  ^  P^^*>'  ^'  ^-dTye 

Perfected  Ln,^^°''  ^"^  adversary  is  necessarii;  yet 
periected  m  misery  or  malimifv    ^r.  ^\^t  1.    ,    ^  ^ 

re^hed  the  olunao4o  of  iS^^^^  j"  ^Z 't 


I  ' 


a  THE  rOOT-PMNTS  OP  SATAN. 

— ^in  intelleot  and  physical  power,  and  in  downright  ma- 
lignity and  hatred  of  God  and  of  all  good,  filling  up  the 
measure  of  his  iniquity,  and  preparing  for  a  final  and 
desperate  onslaught  on  the  children  of  men. 

This  view  would  seem  sustained  (at  least  the  idea  that 
devils  are  not  yet  perfectly  miserable)  by  the  prayer  of 
the  "Legion"  that  Christ  would  "not  torment  them 
before  the  time  "—that  he  would  not  cast  them  into  the 
"  deep,"  the  pit  of  their  final  and  perfect  torment. 

What  is  the  DevU  ? — Do  you  ask  again  who  this  Devil 
is  and  what  he  is  ?  We  answer,  he  is  the  father  of  lies, 
the  arch-deceiver,  the  tempter,  the  destroyer  of  all  peace, 
all  purity,  all  righteousness.  But  has  he  power  to  con- 
trol the  human  will  ?  Has  he  any  power  that  man  can- 
not resist  ?  We  think  not.  "  Besist  the  Devil  and  he 
will  flee  from  thee."  "God  will  not  suffer  you  to  be 
tempted  above  what  ye  are  able  to  bear."  Though  there 
be  no  end  to  his  devices,  allurements,  temptations,  the 
will  of  the  tempted  is  left  free.  The  wiles  of  the 
Tempter  may  be  never  so  seductive,  they  have  full  j  ower 
to  resist. 

Bat  here  arises  a  very  practical  query.  It  refers  to 
the  whereabouts  of  our  common  Foe.  Can  we  flee  from 
his  presence  ?  Can  we  shield  ourselves  from  his  cunning 
devices  ?  He  is  not  absolutely  omnipresent,  as  he  is  not 
omnipotent.  Yet  he  has  a  wonderful  ubiquity.  He  may 
be  superintending  affairs  in  his  Sodom,  in  London  or 
New  York,  and,  apparently  at  the  same  moment,  be 
supervising  the  doings  of  his  minions  in  his  Gomorrah 
in  Lidia  or  China.  Either  by  his  agents,  or  by  his  own 
presence,  transported  thither  as  by  lightning  speed,  lie 
may,  for  all  practical  purposes,  be  in  each  and  every  place 
at  the  same  time.  By  his  wonderful  facilities  of  loco- 
motion he  has  a  sort  of  omnipresence.  Like  as  the  angel 
Gabriel,  who,  at  the  "beginning"  of  Daniel's  prayer, 


THE  DEVIL  THE  GOD  OP  THIS  WOBLD.  28 

received  a  commission  to  go,  and  "being  caused  to  flv 
swiftly,    stood  m  the  presence  of  Daniel  before  he  had 
closed  his  snppHcation,  having  passed  through  a  space  to 
us  mfinite,  so  may  this  faUen  angel,  the  «  prince  of  the 
power  of  the  air,"  go  from  world  to  world,  or  move  from 
one  portion  of  our  globe  to  another  with  the  celerity  of 
light.     We  are  not  to  suppose  he  has,  by  his  moral 
apostasy,  lost  either  his  physical  capabihties  or  his  intel- 
lectual capacities.     Like  man  he  is  morally  depraved 
but  not  physically  or  mentally.  * 

And  though  he  is  neither  omniscient  nor  omnipotent 
such  is  the  power  of  his  intellect,  and  such  the  strength 
of  his  arm  and  his  capabihties  of  locomotion,  that,  when 
compared  with  those  of  a  mere  man,  he  is  seeminglv 
both.  °  ^ 

Where  is  the  Devil  ?-But  is  it  asked,  where  is  the 
Devil  and  aU  his  countless  hosts  ?    We  might  answer  he 
«  nowhere  in  particular,  but  everywhere  in  general     His 
place,  his  final  destiny,  is  the  bottomless  Pit     He  is 
"  reserved  "  for  that  great  prison-house  of  the  universe 
under  sentence  of  death  eternal,  yet  for  a  season  a 
prisoner  at  large-"  going  about,  to  and  fro,  walking  ud 
and  down  in  the  earth,"  "seeking  whom  he  may  devour  " 
--a  wretched  wanderer,  homeless,  a  hopeless  outcast 
from  his  heavenly  home,  and  only  waiting  in  feU  despair 
his  eternal  doom.      »  ^ 

The  appellation,  "prince  of  the  power  of  the  air" 
would  seem  to  give  plausibihty  to  the  idea  that  Satan 
and  his  countless  "Legion"  of  apostate  spirits  inhabit 
or  rather  roam,  in  the  aerial  regions-not  in  the  void 
space  about  any  one  globe,  but  about  the  worlds  •  and 
more  especially,  ar9und  about  this  faUen  planet  of  ours 
His  origmal  home  .was  in  heaven,  the  dwelUng-place  of 
holy  angels    where  he  was  an  angel,  high  and  holf 
Ihe  great  Dragon  was  oast  out,  tliat  old   Serpent 


2i 


TEE  F00T-PMNT8  OF  SATAN. 


i        !. 


called  the  devil  and  Satan,  which  deceiveth  the  whole 
world:  he  was  oast  out  into  the  earth,  and  his  angels 
were  oast  out  with  him."  "I  saw  Satan  as  Ughtning 
fall  from  heaven," 

And,  as  his  business  seems  to  lie  very  much  with  this, 
our  world,  and  the  inhabitants  thereof,  it  would  seem  not 
unnatural  that  his  roaming-ground  and  homeless  home 
should  be  in  the  aerial  regions.    But  this  is  of  no  conse- 
quence.    Such  are  his  locomotive  powers,  and  such  the 
number  and  activity  of  his  host,  that  for  all  purposes  of 
mischief  he  is  everywhere  and  in  every  place  at  the  same 
time — nor  is  the  devil  omnipotent,  yet  is  possessor  of 
tremendous  powers.     In  Egypt  he  wrought  miracles. 
Through  magicians,  sorcerers  and  soothsayers  he  did 
wonders.     He  had  power  over  plagues  and  diseases  to 
affict  men,  as  in  the  case  of  Job.     And  to  a  hmited  ex- 
tent— though  not  within  narrow  hmits — has  he  power 
over  the  elements  of  .nature  to  do  manifest  and  mighty 
mischief.     And  perhaps  his  greatest  power  is  not  that 
which  he  has  over  the  bodies  and  the  temporal  interests 
of  men.      He  has  a  controlling  power  over  the  human 
mind.     He  presents  motives  and  uses  devices  which 
are  often  all  but  irresistible. 

His  Attributes. — And  again,  the  devil,  though  very 
wise,  is  not,  as  we  said,  omniscient.  Angels  are  of  a 
vastly  higher  grade  of  intellect  than  men,  and  the  chief 
of  angels  is  no  doubt  superior  to  the  common  order. 
Satan  took  rank  with  the  higher  order,  and  we  may  not 
suppose  his  intellectual  calibre  lessened  because  of  his 
moral  perversion.  He  has  probably  more  than  made  up 
in  craft  and  cunning  and  malignity  what  he  lost  in  moral 
virtues.  His  fierce  and  desperate  warfare  with  Heaven 
and  Heaven's  King,  has,  we  may  suppose,  quickened  Lis 
intellect,  drawn  out  the  latent  resources  of  his  mind,  and, 
as  fired  by  pride,  hate  and  revenge,  he  has  ever  since  his 


THE  DEm  THE  OOD  OF  THIS  WORLD.        ^ 

thing  belonging  to  the  wisest  of  men  aTZZl    u-^' 
seemingly  omniscient.  '    '  ^  "^"^^  ^^°» 

W^llr^'*  ^  *''"^°  """^"^  ''  Satan's  knowledge  I 
We  can  form  some  estimate,  though  but  a  very  imnfr 

tThi     ;    1^        °  '°*''^^^  ^^'^^^i^®  <>f  a  greater  curse 
to  be  entaJed  on  a  community  than  to  have  livW  ^ 

and  nctivity  of  hia  iate\U„l  til         .     !?    ""S^'tude 

seem  to  much  too  concede  in  mere  mmUUt,S,Lu 
are  other  considerations  which  rive  h^  ^^  f^'^ 
tages  we  have  supposed  wJlSZ,  T^  ""*  '*'""■ 
and  his  singular  Etv  WW  f/"!*""?""" 
wicked  manCaheTe«  clolt  °°.f  ""'  °"  "^ 
and  could,  for  all  XZpt^^  ZL""^"  T"*'' 
the  same  time.  Pnfposes,  act  in  every  pl^e  at 

o.  .th  a^^- f tdtir  «-:^::  -« re^; 

versary ;  the  tempter  to  sin  anH  fL  7  ^^^  *<^" 

-    But  Of  hisVnXktwt  Sel^X^ 


26 


THE  rOOT-PBINTS  OP  SATAN, 


pi  Heaven  and  earth,  and  why,  the  Bible  gives  little  oi 
no  direct  knowledge.  Yet  we  are  left  in  no  doubt 
that  there  is  such  a  being,  and  that  his  character  is  alto- 
gether and  irretrievably  wicked,  and  that  his  devices, 
acta  and  agencies  are  all  on  the  side  of  evil. 

For  our  popular  notions  of  Satan  we  are  mostly 
indebted  to  the  fabulous  theology  of  the  Middle  Ages, 
as  embodied  in  the  great  poems  of  Milton  and  Dnnte. 
Yet  of  his  existence  and  direful  doings  and  vast  powers 
for  mischief  we  are  left  in  no  doubt. 

He  was  created — was  the  workmanship  of   'Le  Al- 
mighty hand.      Whm  he   began   to   exist,  we   do  not 
know.    He  belonged  to  a  race  known  as  angels,  created 
somewhere  far  back  in  the  endless  ages  of  a  past  eter- 
nity, we  know  not  where.     He  was  one  of,  or  rather  he 
was  the  chief  of  those  angels  which  "  kept  not  their 
first  estate,  but  left  their  own  habitation  and  were  re- 
served in  everlasting  chains  under  darkness  unto  the 
judgment  of  the  great  day."    Peter  declares  that  "  God 
spared  not  the  angels  that  sinned,  but  cast  them  down 
to  hell."     And  Isaiah,  perhaps  in  allusion  to  the  same 
event,  exclaims,  "  How  art  thou  fallen  from  heaven,  O 
Lucifer,  son    of   the  morning!"    Now  these  passages 
teach  three  things  :    First,  the,  existence  of  tvicked  angels. 
They  are  prisoners  "  reserved  in  everlasting  chains  unto 
the  judgment  of  the  great  day ;"  and  their  present  habi- 
tation is  "hell"— "under  darkness."    Second,  this  was 
vet  always  their  condition.    They  were  once  in  "  heaven," 
"their  first  estate,"  and  "tL, .       wp  habitation."    The 
expression,  "their  first  estp  .   '    .»^      propeiij   is  ren- 
dered their  principality,  and  reiera  to  government  or  do 
minion  rather  than  to  residence.    "  Their  own  habita- 
tion "  seems  to  have  been  some  abode  peculiar  to  them  ; 
and  the  two  expressions  are  supposed  to  indicate  that 
these  angels  exercised  dominion  in  some  distant  part  of 


nut  DBVIl,  THE  OOD  OF  THIS  WOBLD.  W 

oreaUon.    Some  planet,  some  groat  globo,  wme  one  of 
Vhe  "many  manaiona"  in  our    "Fathei-s  house"  may 
Save  been  then:  prituipaiUy-.'- tm.  own  habLtir' 
where  they  governed  as  aubordinate  rulers    Thist^  I    i 
^emstobe  God's  method  o,  governing  JtuVtrJ 
He  rules  by  proxy.     And,  for  aught  we  know,  thrme 
U.od  may  be  observed  in  other  spheres  and  ooLtruo"^ 
the  world  to  come.     Perhaps  this  is  intended  when!  I 
promised  ttat  •■  we  shall  judge  angeK"  "  sit  on  th^ones^ 
and  wear  ■•  crowns."    But,  once  more,  their  fall  u^7L 
«n.    The  expressions  "  kept  not  their  first  estateT-Tef 
their  own  habUation."  "faUen,"  and  "«»n«i,"  are  lu 

t^e  heavU  a J^I  .'^' ^^::^'^-^-t 

fdTlTrs^ZTrr  ^t"  ^4'-- 

^^a..  the  beginning  ofT.,  ^^^^^^^Z 
There  was  a  time,  then,  when  there  was  no  evil  m,de. 

Satan  is  older  than  man      Whar,  n.  a       i. 

^eiitizTorrhS-rMak:- 


-JVJMIf  jR- 


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THE  POOT-PBINTS  OF  SATM. 


pure  and  holy  being.  He  worshipped  the  Almightj, 
paid  his  vows,  and  joined  the  countless  multitude  about 
the  throne  in  their  serenade  tc  Jahovah.  But  he  fell 
from  his  high  station.  He  sinned,  and  lost  his  original 
purity.  Of  the  angels  that  God  made,  some  fell,  and 
the  eby  became  devils.  There  was  a  revolt  in  heaven, 
and  Satan  headed  it.  There  was  a  secession,  and  Satan 
was  the  first  to  preach  it.  But  it  was  a  disastrous  rjbel- 
Uon.  All  engaged  in  it  were  overwhelmed  and  oast 
down  to  hell.  When  this  Injportant  event  occurred  is 
not  known  on  earth — how  long  after  their  creation,  or 
how  long  before  the  melancholy  meeting  in  Eden^  has 
not  been  revealed.* 

When  Adam  sinned,  sin  was  already  in  the  world.  He 
had  a  tempter.  But  not  so  Satan.  He  committed  the 
first  sin ;  and  that  with  no  one  to  lure  to  transgression. 
Man  was  weak — of  the  earth,  earthy.  Satan  was  an 
angel  in  heaven,  in  the  presence-chamber  of  the  High 
and  Holy  One.  Both  were  under  law ;  both  on  trial ; 
both  free  agents.  Yet  n-an  was  at  a  disadvantage,  in 
being  exposed  to  the  wiles  of  ono  so  superior  to  himself 
in  power  and  intellect 

The  whole  angehc  race,  an  "  innumerable  company," 
"  thousand  thousands,  and  ten  thousand  times  ten  thou- 
sand," who  ministered  to  the  Ancient  of  Days,  were  on 
probation — free  to  sin,  free  to  maintain  their  integrity. 
But  how  could  a  holy  ang  el  ?  What  temptation  could 
be  strong  enough  to  turn  him  from  the  presence  of  infi- 
nite Love,  and  from  his  seat  among  the  blessed  ?  We 
may  raise  the  question,  but  we  cannot  answer  it.  When 
sin  was  first  conceived  in  the  mind  of  Satan  there  was 
nothing  in  aU  the  Universe  to  suggest  it — there  was  no 
temptation,  no  occasion  for  it.    Everything  was  in  har- 

*  Lectures  on  Satan,  by  Bev.  Thaddens  McSae,  to  whom  we  ao> 
knowledge  obligation. 


THE  VEYIL   THE  OCD  OP  THIS  WOBLD. 

mony  With  holiness.  The  thought  oaine  from  within.  It 
originated  in  himsell  But  here  aU  is  chaos.  An  evil 
tiiouGht  presupposes  an  evH  mind.  But  his  mind  was 
bolj  then ;  how  could  it  conceive  an  unholy  deed?  We 
cannot  grasp  the  conception  of  a  My  mture  eflfectinR  an 
My  thing;  and  how  was  that  nature  so  transformed 
as  to  transgress,  is  what  defies  our  understanding.  An 
angel  one  moment,  a  devil  the  next-this  is  the  Sphinx 
of  history.  r-****. 

The  particular  sin  by  which  the  apostate  angels  fell  is 
supposed  to  have  been  prick.    In  the  book  of  Job  the 
angels  are  called  "morning  stars ;'   and  Isaiah  calls  the 
proud  king  of  Babylon  the  same.    Paul,  also,  in  the 
text,  speaks  of  pnofe  as  th^  condemnation  of  the  Devil:  that 
m,  he  represents  pride  as  the  sin  for  which  he  was  con- 
demned and,  therefore,  by  which  he  feU.    Pride,  then,  is 
ttte  first  and  oldast  sin.    So'ae  suppose  that  SaWs 
pnde  was  aroused  by  the  appearance  of  our  worl<1  ii 
the  socie^  (rf  heaven.    He  saw  man's  mysterious  glory, 
and  feared  that  his  own  would  be  eclipsed  thereby]  ^d 
hence  resolved  on  man's  ruin.    Miltor:,  however,  iL  his 
great  epic,  supposes  that  Satan's  pride  was  excited  by  a 
decree  o    God  that  aU  the  angels  should  worship  the 
f?k      Vf?'  *^^*  Satan  "could  not  bear  that  sight, 
and  thought  himself  impaired."    He  then  describes  tiiis 
proud  spirit  as  stirring  others  up  to  war : 

"  Wm  ye  rabmit  your  necks  and  choose  to  bend 
The  enpple  knee?    Ye  will  not,  if  ji  uost 
To  know  ye  righ<^  or  if  ye  know  yourselves 
Natives  and  sons  of  Heaven." 

A  burden  and  disgnst  in  heaven,  they  were  expeUed. 
Tha  was  no  place  for  *hem.  Cfod  «^  tiem  doiJto  heO. 
Tartars  «  the  original  word.  It  is  nsed  ia  the  6re^ 
classics  to  signrfy  "  the  lowest  and  darkest  pit  in  the  uni- 


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THB  FOOT-PBINTS  OF  SATAN. 


i  !i 


verse."  It  is  doubtless  "  the  outer  darkness,"  spoken  o! 
by  Christ,  and  "the  bottomless  pit"  of  the  Apocalypse. 
Where  it  is  I  do  not  pretend  to  say.  It  may  be  in  those 
regions  of  utter  emptiness,  the  huge  "  void,"  or  "  vasty 
deep,"  far  away  from  sun,  and  star,  and  moon,  and  world, 
unpenetrated  by  light  or  eye  of  heaven— one  wild  wilder- 
ness of  darkness  and  airless,  viewless,  endless  night.  In 
that  abysmal  sea  "  hell "  may  have  a  local  habitation — 
"  prepared  for  the  devil  and  his  angels ;"  and  there  they 
are  reserved  in  chains  cf  darkness  unto  jtidgmmt.  This 
does  not  mean  that  they  are  in  close  confinement.  They 
are  bound  over  as  criminals,  have  their  limits,  and  await 
the  extremity  of  their  punishment. 

It  is  common  to  represent  Satan  as  lHack,  and  the  place 
of  his  abode  as  the  "  blackness  of  darkness  forever " — 
"  in  everlasting  chains  of  darkness,"  expressions  symboli- 
cal of  the  character,  malignity,  and  misery  of  Satan  and 
of  his  infernal  hosts.  White  is  the  symbol  of  purity, 
holiness,  joy.  The  saints  in  glory  are  "purified  and 
made  white;"  their  "garments  white  as  snow;"  "rai- 
ment white  as  the  light."  The  author  already  quoted 
draws  a  befitting  portraiture  of  the  blackness  of  Satan's 
character. 

Now,  Satan  is  all  blackness,  and  he  is  therefore  all 
woe.  I  think  this  view  is  not  usually  prominent  in  our 
ideas  of  the  DeviL  We  regard  him  as  the  mighty  fallen, 
majesty  in  ruin,  something  to  be  admired  and  feared.  We 
leave  out  his  awful  grief,  his  wild  despair.  But  let  us  re- 
member that,  being  the  most  wicked  being  in  existence, 
lie  is  therefore  the  most  miserable.  It  is  all  night  with 
him,  but  no  rest.  He  has  not  lost  his  nature — his  mind, 
his  will,  his  desires,  his  sensibilities ;  but  these  only  serve 
as  instruments  of  his  torture.  He  wishes,  but  he  never 
realizes ;  he  pursues,  but  he  never  wins ;  he  thirsts,  but 
he  never  drinks.    He  is  proud,  but  he  knows  that  he  is 


THE  DB7IL  THE  GOD  OP  THIS  WORLD. 


81 


not  esteemed.    He  is  ambitious,  but  he  knows  he  can 
never  rise.    He  plots,  but  his  schemes  always  return 
upon  himself.    With  dire  hate  he  forges  chains  for  the 
,     people  of  God,  but  ere  long  those  chains  are  put  upon 
his  own  limbs.    The  Almighty  meets  him  in  every  snare, 
and  doubles  his  confusion.    His  veiy  struggles  sink  him' 
deeper  into  lower  depths.    Mighty  mourner !    There  is 
no  respite  to  his  torments.    He  is  ever  consuming,  yet 
never  consumed;    always  dying,  yet  never  dead.    His 
chains  are  always  on  him.    The  tempest  is  perpetually 
raining  fire  and  brimstone  upon  his  pain-struck  head ; 
while  all  of  hell's  troubled  minions  are  unceasingly  wail- 
ing harsh  thunder  in  his  ears.    His  very  eyes  weep  blood 
and  every  groan  he  heaves  is  big  with  horror.    Blank 
and  cheerless  despair  is  aU  that  is  before  him.    He 
never  smiles.    Grim  woe  never  relaxes  its  hold  upon  his 
brow.    His  only  joy  is  that  of  the  murderer  who  falls 
upon  his  victim,  and,  tearing  out  his  heart,  grates  his  teeth 
over  Its  agony.    He  never  sings.    The  only  notes  he  can 
utter  are  imprecations  against  his  Maker,  curses  upon 
his  victims,  and  the  maniac  howl  of  remorse.    And  the 
only  music  Le  hears  is  the  echo  of  his  own  hollow  moans 
the  widow's  sigh,  the  orphan's  curse,  the  prisoner's  groan' 
and  the  wild  "shriek  of  tortured  ghosts,"    And  such  he 
would  be  were  there  "no  heaven  for  him  to  envy,  no  God 
to  condemn  him.'* 

Satan  is  the  great  deformity,  possessing  every  abhor- 
rent attribute.    He  is  superlatively  wicked,  and  therefore 
superlatively  hateful.    And  he  is  hated,  he  is  abhorred 
he  18  execrated.    God  the  Father  hates  him,  God  the 
Son  hates  him,  God  the  Spirit  hates  him,  the  seraphim 
hate  him,  the  cherubim  hate  him,  the  angels  hate  him 
the  samts  aU  hate  him.    He  is  the  loathsome  wretch  that 
heaven  has  spewed  out  of  its  mouth. 
Bis  Fkysical  Foioers.—lint  if  we  pass  to  the  physical 


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THE  FOOT-PRINTS  OF  BATAN. 


power  of  Satan  we  shaU  have  no  less  occasion  to  note 
and  deplore  his  fallen  greatness.  In  power  he  was  once 
an  angel  of  the  first  magnitude.  His  apostasy  did  noth- 
ing to  impair,  but  only  to  pervert  his  great  power.  He  ia 
now  just  as  potent  for  mischief  as  he  once  was  mighty 
for  good.  He  is  completely  and  hopelessly  demoralized, 
but  not  weakened  in  either  physical  or  mental  power. 
Yet  his  bounds  are  set,  which  he  cannot  pass.  "  Thus 
far  shalt  thou  come  and  no  farther."  He  could  not  harm 
a  hair  of  Job's  head  except  by  God's  permission.  The 
assaults  on  Peter  were  suffered  for  a  time  to  test  him. 
Satan  was  allowed  to  *'  sift  him  as  wheat,"  that  he  might 
be  the  better  prepared  for  his  future  mission. 

We  have  referred  to  the  Devil's  wonderful  power  of  lo- 
comotion, how  he  travels  with  lightning  speed  from  world 
to  world,  «  perhaps  outstripping  thought,  certainly  sur- 
passing the  lightning's  glance."    Like  Gabriel,  who  in  a 
moment  of  time  transported  himself  from  a  heavenly 
abode  into  the  presence  of  Daniel,  this  mighty  angel  can 
secure  a  like  ubiquity.    And  then  his  power  to  work.l 
He  can  transform  himself  into  any  guise  he  chooses.    He 
seems  to  have  appeared  to  Jesus  in  the  wilderness  as  an 
angel  from  heaven.    And  it  is  in  such  a  disguise  that  he 
achieves  some  of  his  most  notable  victories.    And,  after 
the  manner  of  unfallen  angels,  *as  in  the  case  of  the 
"man  Gabriel"  who  appeared  unto  Daniel,  and  the  an- 
gels who  visited  Abraham  in  the  plain  of  Mamre,  Satau 
is  wont  to  appear,  too,  in  the  human  form.    Simply  this 
power  of  transformation  indicates  a  physical  ability  far 
transcending  the  limits  of  mere  human  power. 

Again,  Satan  has  power  over  ordinary  matter,  which  he 
fails  not  to  use  as  the  great  enemy  of  man.  We  know 
how  the  good  angels  unloosed  the  chains  that  bound 
Peter  m  prison,  and  rolled  back  the  ponderous  iron  gates 
and  set  Peter  free,  spite  human  hatred  and  civil  authority. 


THE  DTOL  THE  GOD  OF  raw  WOBU).  JS 

a»d  flockB  of  Job,  and  raised  «  stem  b  tC  ^a  ^"^ 
hat  overthrew  the  elder  brotte^sTol*  1  ""^ 
iBhed  aU  his  aoris  and  dauKhte™  AnT!'.  *"""  P"" 
Demon  instigated  the  SaZ^^":  „te  t^rrfh' 
servants,  who  were  attending  his  oxen    and  Z  n/?^  ' 

brought  fire  from  heaven  ti  «lo^  u-  ^  a^vers.  He 
whirlwind  that  destr^S^ohll^'  ^o^J^^  ^  ' 
tie  person  of  the  righteous  Datriarph     w  ^  ^"* 

permitted  to  reduce  Wm  to  CeX Id^'  T  "'"  ""'^ 
of  his  dearest  friends,  but'^ra^ildtis'^v"  '/T 
grievous  sores  so  as  to  make  hJmTii  ,  .!  •  ^^  ^'*^ 
self  and  to  aU  about  him  ^  ^°^*^"^S  *°  ^i^" 

And  what  shall  we  say  of  thooA  +»,^«  j, 

nature-those  anomalii"  aWabW-r  .^P"'"'  "' 
".g  and  travailing  in  pain  "-wh^i! !      "    ?'^''''°"  8«'«'>- 
m  the  desolating  storm  t^  7      1^^""  «ie  tempest, 
-d  the  terrific""™t  a^t'  ''^  ''^^^^^^-^'^K 
be  not  the  fearful  utterances  the  inf       ,°^^'"^  "   *«' 
and  acts  of  the  " Vn^TZ'^^T^T'^f:^'''''^ 
serpent  in  Eden,  the  spoUer  of  I»  h      .   '"■'    *•■*  °^^ 
happiness;  of  him  who  chaLfd  P      T^^-   ^^^-  ^^ 
monium.    But  for  sira^d  ^11^7"^  T  "  "'"''''- 
have  been  none  of  (h<,„  ^  Ji-         "'*°  "'^''e  would 
vastaling  ooXts    ^Zjl^^T^.  ^''"'^te.  these  d^ 
comes  up  from  the  wild^esslj""^«'l  '^-P''^'  'tat 
piling  up  the  forests  an"r;Z?7  ''°™  '^^  ''"^' 
the,  were  pipe-atems;  t^ft  Zt^stlfT  "'"".'"  " 
mg  the  waters  into  foam  oJifhi      A         "'  ''°*'  "''""- 
ohasms,  and  throlg^ta  ?^«   ^r," T  "'^  "«'^ 
his  prayer  to  the  blcCdheavr^^r  't"" 
-oon  that  sweeps  over  the  plain, Ciigt   Z^J:^. 


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THE  FOOT-PBIMTS  OF  SATAN. 


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which  it  travels  a  crisp  and  a  cinder ;  and  that  appalling 
plague  that  visits  some  great  city,  dragging  its  slain  to 
the  sepulchre  by  thousands ;— did  not  Satan  preside  at 
their  birth,  give  them  all  their  fury,  direct  their  desolat- 
ing track,  and  call  them  back  hke  hell-hounds  from  the 
chase,  only  at  the  bidding  of  the  Almighty  ?  And  what 
means  that  wild  alarm  that  seizes  the  sons  of  men  when 
the  hurricane  presents  its  wrathful  brow,  when  the  earth 
rocks  under  foot,  when  the  lightning  shoots  along  the 
sky,  and  when  the  awful  thunder  utters  its  voice  ?  Gomes 
it  not  from  the  consciousness  that  the  fiend  has  slipped 
his  chain,  that  the  very  spirit  of  evil  is  abroad  ?" 

Or  recur  we  to  the  demoniac  possessions  in  the  days  of 
our  Saviour,  and  what  power  had  the  Evil  One  over  the 
bodies  of  those  possessed  1  They  were  rent,  torn,  pros- 
trated with  convulsions,  cast  into  the  fire  or  the  water. 
They  "wandered  among  the  tombs  and  desert  places, 
cutting  themselves  and  crying  in  the  most  doleful  man- 
ner." A  woman  is  bowed  together,  and  can  in  no  wise 
lift  herself  up,  whom  Satan  had  bound,  "  lo  1  these  eight- 
een years."  And  to  Paul  was  given  "  a  thorn  in  the  fiesh, 
a  messenger  of  Satan  to  buffet  him." 

And  yet  more  daring  than  all,  he  lays  his  polluted 
hands  on  the  body  of  our  blessed  Eedeemer.  During 
the  temptation  the  Devil  took  up  Jesus  and  set  him  on  a 
pinnacle  of  the  Temple.  See  this  fiend  soaring  away 
with  the  Saviour  through  the  air,  "  like  an  eagle  with  his 
prey ;"  then  to  an  exceeding  high  mountain ;  afterwards 
to  the  cross. 

After  suffering  much  from  the  Evil  One  during  His 
pilgrimage,  at  its  conclusion,  for  the  most  gracious  of 
purposes,  the  Son  of  God  was  surrendered  completely 
into  his  hands.  "This  is  his  hour  and  the  power  of 
.darkness."  From  the  accursed  kiss  of  Judas  to  the  exit 
from  the  tomb,  Jesus  was  under  the  unrestrained  power 


:.;*} 


THE  DEm,  THE  OOD  OP  TpiS  WORLD.        35 

of  Satan.    There  was  not  one  act  of  mercj  shown  him 
through  that  whole  period.    It  was  all  undiluted  cruelty 
Some  diabolical  power  was  the  presiding  genius  of  the 
whole  tragedy.    That  seizure,  that  trial,  that  mockery 
that  scourging,  that  nailing,  that  laughter,  that  exultation 
over  the  agony  and  death  of  the  Saviour-what  was  it 
all  but  pandemonium  turned  loose  for  a  season  and  hold- 
mg  high  carnival  about  that  cross?    Awful  spectacle  I 
Behold  the  Son  of  God  deserted  by  friends,  forsaken  by 
heaven,  hanging  there  as  the  object  of  tho  earth's  relent- 
less enmity,  and  the  target  of  hell's  damnable  artiUery 
It  IS  aU  over  now;   Satan  has  done  his  worst-he  has 
murdered  the  Lord's  Christ. 

"  When  we  see  this  malignant  foe  travellmg  through 
space  with  the  rapidity  of  thought,  putting  on  the  dis- 
guise of   an    angel,   breathing   pestilence  and   plague 
upon  whole  districts,  driving  the  tornado  across  seas  and 
continents,  hurling  frightful  fireballs  from  heaven    and 
fimitmg  the  bones  of  men    with  disease,  cutting    the 
chords  of  life  and  hurling  men  into  the  abyss  of  eterni- 
ty," we  shudder  at  a  power  only  second  to  omnipotence 
And  yet  how  much  more  audacious  and  Heaven-daring 
that  assault  on  God's  beloved  Son  1    That  dark  hour  of 
the  betrayal,  of  the  arrest,  of  Peter's  denial,  of  the  cry 
of  crucify,  crucify  him,  and  of  the  last  ignominious 
scene  on  Calvary-these  the  malicious  triumphs  of  the 
Wicked  One.    Here  was  power.    But  it  was  the  "  power 
of  darkness  "-the  «  Spirit  that  worketh  in  the  children 
of  disobedience." 

Bis  Deceptions.-^Thsit  the  Devil  works  wonderously  is 
readily  conceded.  But  can  he  work  mvrades  ?  He  d^s 
many  things  that  confessedly  surpass  all  human  agency 
What  else  are  we  to  judge  of  the  doings  of  the  "  wise 
men  and  sorcerers  "  of  Egypt  ?  They  so  nearly  imitated 
the  miracles  of  Moses  and  Aaron  as  to  seem  to  dn  fh« 


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1  iHIIU 


very  same  things.  If  they  were  not  miracles  they  were 
something  that  required  a  miracle  to  refute.  If  we  call 
them  delusions,  how  then  shall  we  refute  the  skeptic 
when  he  claims  the  same  thing  for  the  wonders  done  by 
Moses  and  Aaron?  To  the  multitude  that  looked  ou, 
the  rods  of  the  magicians  as  really  became  living  ser- 
pents as  that  of  Moses  did.  It  is  said  that  the  magi- 
cians did  in  like  manner  as  Moses  had  done,  and  their 
rods  too  became  serpents.  Both  would  alike  appear  mi- 
racles. The  difference  was  that  the  sovereign  power  of 
Heaven  interposed  and  gave  the  triumph  to  his  servant  by 
making  Aaron's  serpent  devour  those  of  the  magicians. 
As  in  the  wilderness,  the  devil  was  allowed  to  exercise 
a  power  altogether  superhuman. 

All  along  the  hne  of  revelation  we  meet  with  sorcerers, 
divmers,  magicians,  who  profess  and  are  beUeved  to 
work  miracles ;  and  the  Scriptures  speak  of  them  as  do- 
ing these  things  by  the  instigation  and  aid  of  evil  spirits. 
In  the  contest  of  Ehjah  with  the  prophets  of  Baal,  at 
Carmel,.  there  is  the  appearance  that  the  false  prophets 
expected  the  interposition  of  a  supernatural  power  in 
their  behalf.  They  leap  upon  the  pile,  smite  their 
breasts,  and  cut  themselves  with  knives.  They  are  ter- 
ribly in  earnest,  seeming  to  expect  the  aid  of  a  higher 
power,  which,  under  other  circumstances,  they  might 
have  realized. 

The  New  Testament  favors  the  belief  of  this  extraor- 
dinary power  of  the  Devil  "There  shall  arise  false 
Christs  and  false  prophets,  and  shall  show  great  signs 
and  wonders."  In  describing  the  great  apostasy,  Paul 
says  :  "  Whose  coming  is  after  the  working  of  Satan,  with 
all  power,  and  signs  and  wonders."  The  "  two-horned 
Lamb,"  John  saw,  "doeth  great  wonders,  so  that  ho 
maketh  fire  come  down  from  heaven,  and  deceiveth  them 


MB  BoiasH  PMEaiHOOD  ASD  xnuOLH.  87 

ptJe^tl;-  "■'  "■"■  '^  '^^  »""*•  '"^o"  he  had 

-i^oles  ?    We  yidd  to  lX™Ht:Zlr'"« 
viable  pre-emineiifiA  nf  u^;     ^^  -^iieraroiiy  the  unen- 

antagonLs  TX:  l^lfgiot  ^^^0^7'  ^^t 
Adversary  has  followed  up  thf  iSe  of  7t.T  ,  ^^^* 
from  the  earliest  Patriarchs  To  th«  .^  ^*«  development. 
of  gospel  ffrace  f5«rnlll  •  ...  P''®^^''*  dispensation 
Truth. WSiS  ''''t^  '^'^^  "^^^^^i^'^  of  tl^e 
of  attacrand  defo^^^^^^^  accommodated  its  schemes 

tions  and  to  ttr!  *'"'^''  *°  *^«  «*«*«  «f  tie  na- 

civih'ktn:;!^^^^^^^^^^^  and 

the  «  master-pieoe  '^oUhe  teat  A  ?,  "'  "'  ^*''"^'^^' 
wonder  that  he  his  lV.Z^^  t  ^''"^°°'  ^^  '^^^^  '^o* 
powers.  ^*^'^  "^  '^  «"PP«^*  l^is  inightiest 

Accordingly,  the  Romish  clergy  claim  ih^  r^        . 
work  miracles     Wa  a^  ««*  j    ^  ^      ^®  P^^^^  *o 

"spirite  of  devils"  "^rv^^'."*  """^  *o  be  the 
BeLheretoint^t^f'Tr'''**''!  ^*  *'*«"'« 
phet,  (or  High  Si  f^^^     ^'"''  ""^  ""«  '"^  I^ 

>ng  to  be  hug,  is  not  k™  fh.  b  v  .  ^°P*'  ™  <«»^ 
of  the  Papaf;  a!d  iT  t'  ^"P^'  »°d  High  Priest 
miracles.  S  rlr.!?  ""^  ^  "^^  ^  "o* 
stronghold  oflrDt^,  f"**   »PP"»«h«^  and  this  last 

»e  need  not  besumri, J*'^'"'"'''  """^  '""«"  *°^>^t'>^ 

vived.    For  when  T.!^     '"''  ".'  ^^^  '^•^^'•>  ^ 

nuel  is  riding  forth  to  fitr^'/'""'  °"  ^-^t  Em- 
umg  lortb  to  final  victory,  conquering  and  to 


THE  rOOT-PBINTS  Or  SATAN. 


;      I 


conquer,  should  our  Arch  Foe  put  forth  his  great 
strength  ?  Though  the  order  of  the  day,  at  the  present 
writing,  seems  rather  to  be  Jesuitical  craft,  insidious 
infidehty,  claiming  to  be  an  advance  on  Christianity,  and 
the  "  deceivableness  of  unrighteousness." 

His  Ddudma. — And  we  mistake,  if  our  great  Enemy 
has  bot  a  darling  interest  in  modern  spiritualism,  mes- 
merism, table-movings,  and  mysterious  writings  and 
rappings.  We  are  not  disposed  to  question  that  things 
are  done  and  said,  messages  brought  and  revelations 
made,  which  transcend  all  ordinary,  if  not  all  possible 
human  agency.  But  by  whose  agency  are  these  things 
done? 

The  character  of  the  phenomena  in  question,  the  agents 
and  the  reauUs  are  the  safest  criteria  by  which  to  decide 
whence  they  are.  Who  do  these  things,  and  what  do 
they  do  ?  What  bearing  have  they  on  Divine  Revela- 
tion?— what  truth  do  they  inculcate  or  confirm,  or  what 
sin  rebuke? — what  reform  favor? — what  benevolent  or 
philanthropic  purpose  has  ever  been  subserved  ?  After 
piaking  all  due  allowance  for  magnetic  phenomena, 
pulsations  of  electric  currents,  spasms  of  electricity,  and 
the  many  unused,  and,  to  the  mass  of  men,  the  yet 
hidden  and  unappropriated  agencies  of  nature,  we  have 
not  hesitated  to  concede  that  wonders  may  be  wrought 
which  can  be  accounted  for  on  no  such  principles — which 
exceed  all  possible  human  agency,  or  the  action  of  natu- 
ral forces — superhuman,  miraculous,  if  you  please.  They 
are  the  work  of  Spirits.  But  of  what  spirits?  Here  we 
are,  tidem  volens,  thrown  back  on  the  old-fashioned  cri- 
terion, "  The  tree  is  known  by  its  fruits"  What  good 
has  yet  come  from  the  exercise  of  these  unwonted 
powers?  "On  the  other  hand,  it  has  disturbed  the  peace 
of  many  a  home,  broken  many  a  heart,  and  driven  many 
a  victim  to  the  mad-house.    Under  its  speU  many  a  poor 


'k't^iSastiUMA  gflJ^U^ 


SPIRITUALISM  AND  MESML.  .3M.  39 

«nner  has  lost  the  anchor  of  his  hope,  found  himself 
nding  on  a  wUd  sea,  '  driven  about  by  every  wind  of 
dootnne,   and  has  been  finally  wrecked  forever.     It  is 
notorious  that  spiritualists  lose  their  reverence  for  God's 
Word  and  the  house  of   worship.     To  them  the  raps 
about  the  house  are  superior  to  the  voice  of  the  Saviour, 
he  umntelbgible  scribbling  of  a  medium  is  superior  to 
the  Word  written  by  inspiration,  and  communion  with  a 
table  better  than  the  fellowship  of  the  Holy  Spirit.    Let 
the  thought  enter  your  mind  that  spirituahsm  is  true 
and  a  crevasse  will  open  upon  your  soul  that  may  bea^ 
you  down  to  perdition.    Cotton  Mather  records  of  him- 
self,  during  his  connection  with  witchcraft,  that  he  was 
'tempted  to  atheism,  and  to  regard  aU  religion  as  false ' 
And  so  it^  ever  is.     It  is  hard  to  handle  fire  and  not  be 
burned.    Let  such  foundlings  alone.    Give  them  time,  and 
they  will  destroy  themselves.    A  thousand  such  meteors 
have  blazed  along  the  pathway  of  our  pilgrimage,  and 
have  gone  out  in  darkness ;  but  the  Sun  still  shines  as  he 
shone  thousands  of  years  ago." 

We  do  not  despair  that  these  great  powers,  now  so 
perverted  and  subsidied  in  the  service  of  the  wicked  one 
shall  yet  be  rescued  from  the  hands  of  the  Usurper  and' 
restored  to  the  rightful  owner.    We  lack  no  assurance 
that     all  thmgs  "-all  powers,  aU  resources.  aU  influencea 
and  agencies.  sluM  «  work  together  for  good  to  them  that 
love  God   —shall  contribute  and  contribute  only  to  the 
peace,  the  purity,  the  progress  and  final  blessedness  of 
the  race.    There  is  to  be  a  « restitution  of  aU  things-" 
not  of  the  moral  man  only,  and  all  that  pertains  to  and 
favors  his  mteUectual  and  moral  improvement,  his  present 
happmess  and  his  unending  fehcity.  but  of  the  physM 
man,  and  all  that  pertains  to  him  as  an  earthly  being,  and 
in  this  his  earthly  home.    AU  the  resources  and  ajncies 
of  nature  shall  subserve  his  highest  physical  well-being 


40 


THE  POOT-PRINTS  OF  SATAN. 


Iwli' 


The  earth  shall  be  fertilized,  beautiHed,  and  made  a  fit 
aud  happy  residence  of  a  renovated  and  happy  race.  It 
shall  become  a  Paradise.  The  creation  shall  no  longer 
groan  and  travail  in  pain.  No  barrenness,  no  desert,  no 
deformity  shall  mar  the  beauty  or  detract  from  the 
fertility  of  tlie  new-born  earth.  The  throes  of  the  tem- 
pest, the  tornado,  the  earthquake  and  the  volcano  shall 
be  felt  no  more. 

But  whence  this  stupendous  transformation?     Has 
some  mighty  angel  come  down  and  wrought  such  an 
amazing  renovation  ?     No ;  nothing  of  the  kind.    It  is 
only  the  withdrawal  of  the  disturbing,  desolating,  cor- 
rupting, demorahzing  forces  of  sin  and  Satan.     The 
Prince  of  the  power  of  the  air,  the  God  of  this  world,  is 
simply  divested  of  his  power,  bound  in  chains  and  cast 
out    The  Paradise  you  now  see  is  but  the  earth  healed 
of  her  wounds,  bruises,  and  putrefying  sores,  by  the  sim- 
ple recuperating  force  with  which  nature  is  endowed. 
Lacerate  your  body,  torture  your  flesh  as  you  will,  the 
moment  you  withdraw  the  causes  of  the  infliction,  the 
recuperative  forces  at  once  set  themselves  at  work  to 
repair  the  mischief;  and,  if  not  hindered,  soundness  will 
inevitably  be  restored. 

So  this  earth,  and  all  that  pertains  to  the  natural 
world,  were  smitten  with  the  corroding  wounds  of  sin. 

I         "  Earth  felt  the  wound,  aud  Nature  from  her  seat 

Sighing  through  all  her  works,  gave  signs  of  woe." 

And  for  ages  the  deadly  wound  has  festered  and  cor- 
roded till  the  whole  head  is  sick  and  the  whole  heart 
faint.  From  the  sole  of  the  foot  even  unto  the  head 
there  is  no  soundness  in  it ;  but  wounds  and  bruises  and 
putrefying  sores. 

But  what  is  the  remedy?  Simply  to  remove  the 
cause ;  and  the  great  diseased,  putrefied  body  of  nature 


Sm  BANISHED  i«B  xhe  BABTB  ,  p^„^..  ^j 

»d  .11  that  U  earfcl;  e~7tVf  '"^  """' 
condition,  as  it  wm  Inft  i,„  ..  .  ,  '"  '*"  P"n>ev,U 
whenhep  Jl"'::,':[f.X"'.?^^^'!.<"  creative  Po„„ 


n. 


THE  MAGNITUDE  AND  MISCfflEF 

OF  SIN. 


WHY  SIN  IS  PERMITTED — THE  CUNNING  AND  CRAFTINESS  OP 
SATAN— SIN  THE  CAUSE  OP  ALL  HUMAN  WOE — WHAT 
HATH  SIN  DONE? — SIN  AS  EXHIBITING  THE  POWER  OP 
SATAN — SIN  AS  AFFECTING  DIVINE  GOVERNMENT — HUMAN 
GOVERNMENT— SIN  AS  AFFECTING  OUR  RELATION  TO  GOD 
—MENTALLY— MORALLY— SOCIALLY- SIN  ENTAILED  UPON 
THE  HUMAN  FAMILY— SIN  CHARGED  WITH  ALL  EXISTING 
EVIL. 

It  would  seem  befitting,  at  this  preliminary  stage  of 
our  discussion,  to  take  at  least  a  cursory  view  of  the 
magnitude  and  mischief  of  sin.  If  we  could  comprehend 
how  great  an  evil  sin  is,  we  could  form  some  just  estimate 
of  the  real  power  of  the  Wicked  One.  If  his  power 
lies  in  sin,  then  we  can  only  comprehend  how  great  an 
Enemy  the  Devil  is  by  our  knowledge  of  the  evil  of  sin. 
But  before  entering  upon  the  discussion  proposed,  we 
may  indulge  in  two  general  remarks  which  may  serve  to 
relieve  certain  difficulties  that  sometimes  arise  on  this 
subject ;  the  first  furnishing  a  reply  to  the  query  why  sin 
is  permitted  to  exist  at  all,  and  the  other  furnishing  some 
plausible  hint  as  to  the  peculiar  cunning  and  craftiness 


"  V\m  IJ,  THE   nA  ■  THOU-   F.ATRSr  THR«KOp,  THOU  SHAt,      "1.::;eLY  D,"  "      f  Vn     " 

[From  design  by  Dor£.] 


HRST  SEE  WHAT  SIN  CAN  DO.  43 

Of  the  Devil  in  so  adapting  the  forms  of  sin  to  times  and 
a«^anoe.  as  to  make  his  wiles  doubly  dangerous. 

Why  Stn  Yermitted.-The  design  of  God  seems  to  be 
to  allow  sin  to  have  its  perfect  warh-to  let  it  be  seen 
hrst  what  ^  can  do,  that  its  evil  may  be  developed  and 
niade  manifest  to  the  universe,  in  all  ihe  length  and 
breadth,  and  height  and  depth  of  its  unutterabletil. 
Hence  God  first  permits  the  perve^^sion  of  all  things. 

ll  r  Jf'  in''  *'  '^'''  ^^"'  ^  ^^^  ^°  fi^«t '  -^d  then 
the  rightful  Owner  comes  in  and  shows  to  the  universe 
how  much  higher,  nobler,  holier  purposes  he  can  achieve 
by  the  same  means.  The  Press,  for  example,  God  aUows 
to  be  perverted,  that  it  may  be  seen  what  the  Enemy 
can  do  with  this  mighty  agency.  And  so  of  wealth  and 
mtellect,  position  and  mfluence.  They  are  mi^^hty  agen- 
cies  for  good;  yet  as  perverted  they  are  as  stupendous 
Mir  f   V*    "^^"^  "^'"'^^  ''  ^*««  else'than  a 

what  stupendous  agencies  for  good  are  theyl  Yet  i,^ 
the  administration  of  political  power,  how  httle  a  portion 
has,  heretofore,  been  on  the  side  of  virtue  and  freedom, 
to  say  nothing  of  a  Irue  religion?  They  have  done 
Me  else  than  to  favor  despotism,  fraud,  and  oppression. 
Fnrst,  It  IS  allowed  to  be  seen  what  sin  can  do  through 
these  mighty  engines  of  power;  and  then  3haU  it  be 
made  to  appear  what  mighty  auxiharies  human  govern- 
ments may  become  to  the  progress  of  joy  and  peace,  of 
truth  and  righteousness  in  the  earth.  'jLd  so  wiUi  ihe 
arts  and  sciences,  and  aU  the  facilities  for  human  com- 
fort  and  advancement.  They  are  as  potent  for  evil  as 
they  are  capable  of  being,  and  eventually  shaU  be,  for 

God  works  for  the  universe  and  for  eternity.  The  tri- 
umph of  sin  is  but  for  a  moment ;  the  reign  of  righteous- 
ness IS  eternal.    Hence  the  more  conspicuous  and  bZ- 


li       ' 


l^fl' 


'    1 


!!!!? 


t\\ 


44 


THE  FOOT-PRINTS  OF  SATAN. 


ful  the  temporary  reign  of  the  Usurper,  the  more  distin- 
guished and  glorious,  by  way  of  contrast,  the  eternal 
reign  of  the  one  great  Creator  and  Proprietor.  And 
eternal  will  be  the  aspirations  of  praise,  power,  and 
glory  to  the  great  Three  in  One. 

The  Cunning  and  Craftiness  of  the  Devtl.—Anj  system 
of  falsehood  or  wickedness,  in  order  to  success  among 
mon,  must  have  commingled  with  it  more  or  less  of 
truth.  It  must  be  adapted  to  the  times,  to  existing  re- 
forms, to  the  taste  and  fashion  of  the  age,  to  the  progress 
of  the  arts  and  sciences,  philosophy  and  civihzation ;  to 
the  progress  of  truth  and  of  the  true  Eehgion.  A  sys- 
tem or  practice  that  might  have  served  the  Devil's  pur- 
poses most  eflfectually  in  one  age  and  state  of  progress 
and  of  society,  would  be  quite  too  gross  for  another  age 
and  condition  of  the  world.  We  may  expect,  therefore, 
that  the  perverted  wisdom  of  the  Arch  Fiend  has  not 
overlooked  the  great  doctrine  of  adaptatim.  We  shall 
find  that  in  every  age  Satan  has  craftily  had  regard  to 
what  the  world  could  bear— though  sometimes  he  has 
overtasked  his  subjects  and  they  have  rebelled  and 
thrown  off  his  yoke.  We  shall  see  as  we  proceed  how 
much  the  world  has  consented  to  bear  as  the  bond-slave 
of  the  Devil. 

It  will  suflfice  at  this  point  that  we  take  a  general  sur- 
vey of  our  subject.  We  shall  see  how  our  Aroh  Foe,  the 
great  antagonistic  Power,  aims  at  a  wholesale  perversion, 
a  vile  monopoly,  in  all  human  affairs— in  all  conditions  of 
humanity. 

Sin  the  Cause  of  aU  Human  Woe.— But  for  sin  man  had 
been  happy,  the  earth  been  unscathed  by  the  dire  deso- 
lations tiiat  now  cover  it ;  and  the  animal  creation  been 
spared  the  bondage  of  corruption  to  which  it  is  now 
subjected.  But  sin  has  entered  our  world,  and  defaced 
the  beauty  and  marred  the  happiness  of  all  things.    Man 


THE  EVIL  OP  ^IN  INOOJIPREHENSIBLE.  46 

^Jfl!^'  ,^J'V«^l^'*«feltit.    TLe  Whole  inanimate 
world  has  felt  It.    Every  living  thing  has  felt  it.    The 
whole  oreafaon-^verything  that  pertains  to  i^e  world 
groaneth  and  travaileth  in  pam  together  » 
Whai  hath  Sin  done  ?~Our  inquiry  relates  to  the  mag- 
nj^ude  and  misclnef  of  sin.    The  picture  must  be  incom- 
plete.   It  would  be  impossible,  in  any  range  the  human 
mteUec  can  take,  to  gauge  the  dimensions  of  the  evXt 
must  foDow  the  violation  of  the  divine  law,  or  dJpict  a 
thousandth  part  of  the  woe  that  sin  has  entailed  on  the 
famUy  of  man.    But  the  creature  of  yesterday    man 
knows  but  Httle  of  either  the  beginning  o'r  the  end  71 
thing.    Seemg  but  a  httle  portion  of  a  system   even 
wble  It  IS  in  progress  before  him  he  often  caHs  good  evil 
and  evil  good.    He  sees  there  are  great  evils  inlhe  e^C 
ence  of  sm;  but  how  great  and  how  far-reachin^  he 
cannot  comprehend.    As  far  as  he  feels  these  eviS,  or 
sees  them  actang  about  him;  or  as  far  as  his  limited 
mental  telescope  can  scan  the  effects  of  sin  in  relation  to 
the  Divme  Government  or  man's  final  destiny,  he  may 
have  many  correct  and  appalhng  ideas  of  the'exceeding 
sinfulness  of  sm,  yet  be  far,  very  far  from  being  able  t! 

WW\"?  T"^^*«.*^-  -q-J.  Nay,  not  the  wisest^ 
lughest,  hohest  angel  in  heaven  can  so  comprehend  the 
consequences  of  the  apostasy,  both  in  relation  to  God 
and  his  government,  and  man  and  his  destinv,  both  in 
tmie  and  eternity,  as  to  return  a  fuU  and  satisfactory 
response  to  the  question,  Whai  hath  sin  done  ? 
^]^^^^fi^^{^^^^^^^^^^^irom  which  ihe  wisest  of 
men  and  the  highest  among  angels  have  recoiled.-  Yet 
oLhiV^^t'''^"  things-may  say  much-may  say  what 
ought  to  make  us  weep  over  the  desolations  of  sin  as  we 
view  Its  ravages  on  things  about  us,  and  give  us  an  utter 

GodhaTer  °'  ''  "  '^"^^  '''  ^^^^-^^^«  *^/^aI 


lii! 


h!I 


46 


THE  FOOT-PRINTS  OF  SATiOT. 


T?ie  Magnitude  arid  Mischief  of  Sin  in  its  JRdatum  tu  the 
Divine  GovemnerU. — Sin  is  defined  to  be  a  transgression 
of  the  divine  law.  But  here  again  our  idea  of  the  mag- 
nitude of  the  evil  of  si'-  is  gradjiatcd  by  our  appreciation 
of  the  value  and  imp  .  /  this  law.    For  the  guilt  of 

violation  depends  on  t. .  aaraoter  of  the  law,  the  objects 
at  which  it  aims,  and  the  character  and  design  of  the 
Lawgiver. 

The  law  of  God  is,  like  its  Author,  perfect.    It  is  an 
expression  of  God's  will  towards  man,  and  a  declaration 

of  man's  duty  to  God.    It  ia  not  the  basis  of  our  duty 

that  lies  further  back  in  our  relationship  to  God  and  to 
cur  fellow  men.    He  is  our  Father,  and  we  are  in  virtue 
of  this  rdxition  bound  to  love  and  serve  him.    We  are  his 
by  creation  and  preservation,  and  we  are,  on  account  of 
this  relation,  under  obligations  which  no  power  can  abro- 
gate, to  yield  humble  obedience  and  sincere  worship.  The 
whole  human  family  are  our  brethren,  bone  of  our  bone, 
and  flesh  of  our  flesh,  and  we  are  again  on  this  account 
bound  to  a  mutual  love.    Here  is  the  foundation  of  that 
branch  of  the  law  which  enjoins  our  duty  to  our  fellow- 
mortals—"  Love  thy  neighbor  as  thyself."    In  like  man- 
ner we  have  the  basis  of  the  branch  of  law  which  regu- 
lates our  conduct  towards  God,  in  the  command,  "  Love 
the  Lord  thy  God  with  all  thy  heart."    We  may  regard 
the  law,  then,  rather  as  an  expression  or  declaration  of 
duties  which  have  their  foundation  in  the  very  nature  of 
things— in  our  relations  to  our  God  and  to  one  another. 
There  is  nothing  arbitrary— nothing  unreasonable  in  the 
Divine  law— nothing  that  covJd  be  otherwise,  without 
palpable  injustice.    And  not  only  does  the  law  protect 
the  rights  of  God  and  man,  but  it  secures  man's  best 
interests.    Holy,  just,  and  good,  it  contemplates  the  holi- 
ness of  its  subjects ;   secures  the  rights  of  God  over  his 
creatures,  and  the  rights  of  man  to  man.    And  it  is  good, 


THL  Di™  LAW  THU  LAW  OJ  THE  miTEME.  47 

benevolent  in  all  its  designs,  and  fitted  to  secure  to  n.an 
the  greatest  good,  and  to  God  the  greatest  gW 
^  Sin  «  a  vxo  ahon  of  the  rights  of  God  to  be  honored 
and  of  man  to  be  blrsspirl     i^  a^       •  i  """orea, 

;^a  earth.    B  wonldX  the\tr.tr  heX 

Nor  would  the  misehief  and  ruin  of  sin  stop  here  Tl,„ 
ivjne  law  is  not  limited  to  the  govemment  Ta  f  w 
millions  or  hundreds  of  miUions  of  mortals.  It  VZ 
law  of  the  universe ;  the  law  of  heaven ;  the  standard  by 
which  actions  are  weighed,  and  motives  and  thoSehte 
udged  ttronghout  God's  universal  dominions.    It^Z 

.TSrt  J  ^^"^-  ■'  ^staiMd,  secm-ee  God's  dorv 
violated  with  .mpunity,  God    is  dishonored,  Id   aS 

Sin  is  then  an  attempt  to  destroy  the  empire  of  God 
«nd  blast  forever  the  happiness  of  aU  L  ratio^' 
creatures.  Nor  does  it  matter  here  that  the  puny  S 
mail  can:  ,t  reach  the  eternal  throne.  This  is  its  n^» 
and  tendency^  It  would  do  aU  this  but  Fo  he  „terp^ 
«.g  arm  of  Omnipotence.  In  view,  then,  of  wh^rin 
would  do  If  not  restrained-in  view  of  what  sin  I^doue 
in  breaking  up  our  happy  relationship  with  our  oTd  3 
sevenng  the  ties  of  brotherhood  to  our  feUow  men  Zl 
m^^exclaim  with  lamenUtion  and  woe,  „W  ^i  2 

Sin  as  Jffedmg  Human  Govemnmds.~-We  mieht 
hmit  the  inquiry  for  a  moment  to  Mman  gol^ 
What  has  sm  done  here?  Who  shaU  allow  ZZ^ 
before  him  the  dread  panorama  of  human  despotisms^f 
civil  corruptions,  frauds  and  opprossions-of   na  ion/ 


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THE  FOOT-PRINTS   OP  SATAN. 


'II    I  i; 


,[ 


11'    fr 


Hi 


abased  and  trodden  down  by  the  relentless  heel  of 
tyranny,  and  not  discover  the  unmistakable  footprints  of 
man's  arch  enemy  ? 

Civil  government  is  a  tremendous  power  either  for  good 
or  for  evil.    Vain  are  our  hopes  of  seeing  the  world  es- 
sentially reformed — much  less  of  seeing  it  brought  under 
the  power  of  a  living  Christianity  while  governments  and 
civil  rulers  are  arrayed  in  opposition.     Essential   and 
effective  as  individual  piety  is  to  the  world's  renovation, 
this  is  shorn    of   its  great  strength,  and  in  a  degree 
neutralized  and  made  impotent  by  bad  governments  and 
corrupt  rulers.     When  the  wicked  bear  rule  the  people 
mourn.    The  wicked  walk  on  every  side  when  the  vilest 
men  are  exalted.    Fraud,  corruption,  oppression.  Sab- 
bath desecration,  immorality  of  every  name  and  grade, 
irreligion  and  infideUty,  all  in  sure  and  fearful  succession, 
spread  their  blight  over  a  people  as  the  inevitable  result 
of  a  bad  government.    As  often  as  a  good  king  arose  in 
Israel,  and  a  good  government  followed,  religion  pros- 
pered and  every  good  thing  blessed  the  nation.    While, 
as  surely,  on  the  return  of  a  wicked  ruler,  and  a  corrupt 
government,  the  wicked  rose  on  every  side,  and  demoral- 
ization, discord  and  misery  followed.     Once  ensconced 
in  the  chair  of  state,  the  Devil's  power  is  supreme.    It 
now  becomes  the  confederated  power  of  money,  talent, 
patronage,  position  and  civil  authority.    Such  power  has 
our  Adversary  had  during  the  entire  reign  of  the  apos- 
tasy.   And  such  power  does  he  still  wield,  almost  un- 
challenged among  the  nations  of  the  earth.    To  dislodge 
him  here  will  be  the  last  great  consummating  act  of  a 
triumphant  Chnstianity.    Or,  again. 

Sin  as  Affecting  our  Bdation  to  God. — Taking  a  wider 
range  we  may  put  the  thought  thus :  How  has  the  intro- 
duction of  sin  affected  our  relation  to  God  ?  What  has 
the  Devil  done  here  ?    When  man  was  innocont  God  was 


aow  sm  HAS  AumiAi^  m*k  pboj.  b.„  uod.      49 

of  benevolence  between  hea^  aid  e!^"""""  ''"«» 
love-aa infinite  in  benevolen:: LLZt\TZT 
sin  man  has  turned  his  back  on  his  oZ     w  V  *'' 

"Depart  from  us,  for  we  d^e  Zvt  ^^'"'  '"'^• 
ways."  God  is  our  fatter  ^^t  °°l!  '""'"'}°'^«  "^  ">? 
rebemous.  prodigal.  ab^Led  em^™  ""S^^  »"-';«. 
vened  between  us  and  our  God  Thl?  f-  "'  """" 
present  probalionar,  state  k  t,^*""  ^P"*""".  i»  our 
But  it  is  in  the  natu™  of  sk  to  b^T'"'  ""^  P"'''^- 
final  separation-*  oonlZ      ^      !?*  '  "'""?''''«  «"1 

Withdraw  his  f:th:r;retrhrc:.S:j  ^r'^, 

it  IS  sure  to  incur  this  awfiil  «r,^      ""grateim  child ;  and 

probationary  »»ate  ^aS^e^  "ThTmrenTt^'"'  ^T"' 
»n  turns  his  back  on  his  Fath™  he  orhLte**'^ 
ttie  pnyJeges  and  prerogatives  of  Z  w^i!  .  !''°'" 
But  if  he  persevere  in  his  aCation  h«  f  '  >'^- 

his  Father's  favor     ( J  ^ffl        t      ®  '''"™'  '"rfeita 

fearful  onset  then  has  sin  made  on  our  rltns'I^'L" 

our  world     ThT^i      '"' "  j*"""?  *"  «»«  h^toiy  of     • 
was  a  t  L     r    ^  'PP^*'  *"'  ''y  <«»"'a»t.    There 
was  a  time  when  sin  was  not  in  the  world     W.„ 

ohange'^rnoeenr  tntctf  "^fr'  '"«'  » 
miserable.    The  seeds  of  «^  ?^'^'   l>»PPy  man, 

-n  to  vegetall^d  tei^rLrl*"'^  "^^  "<"' 
Tie  earth  was  filled  S^  vmI**  irT."*!: 
-der,  ambition,  pride  and  ^vrtn^^^^*;-^ 


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I  m>\ 


the  now  polluted  soil,  and  developed  themselves  in  all 
their  vile  luxuriance. 

Everything,  as  it  came  from  the  hand  of  God,  was 
"  good."  Nothing  wanting  to  make  a  vurtuous  species 
happy ;  nothing  that  in  its  remotest  tendencies  should 
not  conduce  to  the  unalloyed  happiness  of  all  who  should 
be  bound  in  allegiance  with  their  God.  All  was  good. 
In  the  constitution  of  the  physical  world,  a'l  was  adapted 
to  make  man  holy  and  happy.  Everything  is  so  con- 
structed as  to  make  man  the  constant  recipient  of  the 
Divine  favor,  teaching  him,  on  the  one  hand,  his  depend- 
ence, and  on  the  other,  presenting  &esh  motives  every 
moment  why  he  should  love  and  serve  the  Author  of  aU 
good. 

Everything  is  good  if  not  perverted  and  abused.  The 
five  senses  were  not  made  to-be  organs  of  pain  or  misery. 
They  often  ht^jrae  such;  but  the  purposes  for  which 
they  were  made  are  altogether  benevolent.  Nerves  were 
not  made  to  vibrate  with  pain,  but  to  communicate  joy 
to  the  gladdened  soul.  Hands  were  not  made  to  fight 
and  destroy,  but  to  do  and  communicate  good.  The 
design  was  that  they  should  minister  to  some  wise  and 
benevolent  end;  and  they  are  in  their  conformation  ob- 
viously better  adapted  to  serve  a  good  pui-pose  than  a  bad 
one.  And  who  would  assert  that  the  eye  is  more  suited 
to  behold  deformity  than  beauty?  or  the  ear  better 
adapted  to  discord  than  harmony  ?  or  the  hands  or  the 
feet  designed  rather  for  mischief  than  good  ? 

And  so  man's  mental  constitution — all  was  constrncted 
righi.  All  here  too  was  "  good."  There  is  not  a  single 
faculty,  desire  or  susceptibility  of  the  mind,  which,  if 
rightly  employed,  would  not  conduce  to  the  well-being 
of  man.  Take  reason,  judgment,  imagination,  or  love 
of  happiness,  or  desire  of  excellence,  (called  when  per- 
verted, ambition,  as  the  love  of  happiness  is  called  self- 


ALL  THINQS  GOOD  D?  THEMSELVES.  ft 

love,  or  Sheer  selfishness,)  and  you  will  see  enough  in  their 

or^r^^&tomdicatethebenevolontpurposeforwVht^^^^^^ 
were  given.     Sadly  as  they  are  perverted  now,  th!y 

geThr^oi';.  '"'"^"^'^^  "^  ^^^"^'^  ^-^fi--;  ^^^^ 

The  same  may  be  said  of  the  moral  construction  of 
man.     He  was  made  altogether  capable  of  loving  and 
honoring  h.s  Creator.     Every  passion,  every  afffction 
IS  when  no  perverted,  j.st  what  it  should  be^o  secure 
tije  greatest  happiness  of  man  and  the  hon-^r  of  God 
There  IS  no  need  of  the  creation  of  a  single  new  faculty 
or  desire,  but  only  to  give  a  new  direction  to  those 
already  exisfng.    If  then  the  world  and  all  therein,  and 
man  and  all  that  pertains  to  him,  were  made  mo  aUy 
upright-just  as  it  should  be  in  order  to  secure  the 

ff2  nf  .^^^'"  m'  °^.  nian->whence  then   the  present 
state  of  the  world,  and  the  present  condition  of  man? 
Whence  the  thorn  and  the  brier?     Whence  the  violence 
that  covers  the  earth ;  the  wars  that  spread  such  devas- 
tation  and  death  over  the  habitations  of  man,  and  the 
pert^rmnoi  almost  everything  from  a  good  to  a  bad 
use?    God  hath  caused  the  earth  to  bring  forth  •  to 
supply  the  wants  and  to  minister  to  the  comfort  of  man 
But  how  are  these  bounties  perverted,  and  made  to 
minister  only  to  hurtful  lusts,  and  to  become  instru- 
ments  of  destruction  to  man.     For  example,  the  earth 
brings  forth  gra^n  for  the  food  of  man.     Bread  is  the 
staff  of  life-the  sustenance  of  by  far  the  greater  por- 
tion  of  the  human  family.    It  i,  a  natural  production  of 
the  earth,  and  when  used  in  its  natural  state,  it  is  alto- 
gether  good.     But  how  different  when  perverted  and 

IT  .  w  .u'  ^r^  '^  ^^°°°^^«  ^^  intoxicating 
dnnk-^and  what  theii?  No  longer  the  staff  of  life  ^ 
has  become  the  rod  of  oppression  and  of  death.  And 
who  can  measure  the  poverty,  the  minery  of  this  one 


n 


THE  P00T-PRINT8  OF  SATAN. 


ii     i' 


I 


perversion  ?  If  sin  bad  done  no  more,  what  has  it  done 
here?  Measure,  if  you  can,  the  tears  it  has  caused 
to  be  shed;  the  poverty  and  degradation  it  has  pro- 
duced ;  the  widows  and  orphans  it  has  made ;  the  gene- 
rous hopes  it  has  blasted;  the  virtuous  aflfections 
blighted;  the  noble  intellects  ruined;  the  tender  ties 
severed;  health  ruined;  souls  destroyed.  All  this  is 
simply  the  work  of  sin.  The  world  is  good ;  the  things 
of  the  world,  good ;  the  enjoyment  of  them  proper  and 
good.     But  the  perversionr—heTe  lies  the  sin. 

And  what  has  not  been  perverted?  Bodily  organs, 
mental  faculties,  moral  powers,  how  have  they  all  been 
turned  out  of  their  legitimate  use  and  prostituted  to 
evil  I  The  judgment  is  perverted ;  reason  abused.  The 
imagination  sent  forth  on  the  wings  of  the  wind  to  re- 
vel amidst  forbidden  objects,  and  the  aflfections  es- 
tranged and  fixed  on  objects  unworthy  and  degrading. 
What,  then,  has  sin  not  done?  Its  withering  desola- 
tions are  spread  about  us  on  every  side.  Yea,  they  are 
within  us.  Nothing  has  escaped  the  blight  and  mildew 
of  the  curse.  Man  and  beast,  and  every  created  thing, 
animate  or  inanimate,  are  sufferers  from  sin.  Man  suf- 
fers from  his  fellows,  suffers  from  his  own  hands ;  the 
victim  of  his  own  passions ;  the  author  of  his  own  ruin. 
And  how  often  are  the  brute  creation  the  helpless  vic- 
tims of  man's  cruelty  and  oppression. 

But  we  cannot  gauge  the  magnitude  of  the  evil  of  sin. 
Its  poisonous  streams  have  gone  out  unto  the  ends  of 
the  earth.  Nothing  has  escaped  the  contagion.  But 
we  return  to  a  more  restricted  view  of  our  subject  and 
consider — 

Sin  as  affeding  <mr  Social  Rdatians. — The  magnitude 
and  mischief  of  sin  in  its  relation  to  man  as  a  social  be- 
ing^  has  not  only  alienated  man  from  his  God,  but  it  has 
estranged  man  from  his  fellow-man.     It  has  filled  the 


SIN  IN  OUB  SOCIAL  BBLiHOHS.  08 

Ohristmn.     It  has  loosed  thetonlV^,      '"r^""""' 

dora  8  box  unsealed-the  world  set  on  fire  bv^!.  Z' 
member.     So  mischievous  a  thinJL^i,    !  ^  ^*'^ 

inspired  one  sa,s  ;™Krord:h'7or.S:\r 
tongue,  the  same  is  a  perfect  man  "    But  »h.  f 
was  no.  made  for  slander  and  m^hief      Its  destf  i: 
mos  benevolent  and  wise.     But  for  the  organs  ofTrtT 
c«^at.on.  we  should  be  little  removed  froHe  br„t 

'"haVdrer- """  '^'  "o"  -^™™^'  ^  - 

m^atd  man.  '\Ti'Tt  ttfr  "t^  "^'-^ 
^««*  x.  .  "  *"**  ^®  '>au8fc  virtually  sus- 

pect a  man  till  we  hftVA   fiifK««  U  ""  KUttiij  BUS- 

^her,.  ,  gainedir^ltL'f  h^sThrrr 
Whence  our  distrust,  if  it  be  not  that  sin  haS^  p^' 
luted  U.e  very  fountain  of  moral  principle  C  we^.t 
obhged  to  assume  that  the  streams  are  poUuted      We 
have  by  our  general  experience  so  often  seen  «W  i^^ 
man,  that  we  assume,  as  the  rule,  that  man  is  bad  and 
then  wait  to   leam    by   experience    ar.d   furZ'    "c 
quamtance  what  are  the  exceptions  to  this  geae7al  rule' 
.....  whom  may  we  receive  to  our  confidence,    t  law 
every  man  «  regarded  as  innocent  tUl  proved  guUtv' 
But  >n  our  social  economy,  we  are  obli|ed  to  rfver»- 

on  the  broad  ground  that  he  is  a  man,  your  brothte  Td 
worthy  of  your  nndoubting  confidence?  WW  w^t  t^ 
know  whether  you  can  confide  in  him  wh»  U  b^n!  ^f 
your  bone  and  flesh  of  your  flesh  ?  """  """^  °' 


H 


THE  FOOT-PRINTS  OF  SATAN. 


If  sin  had  done  no  more,  what  mischief  originated 
from  this  one  fact,  the  want  of  confidence.  In  our  dis- 
trust we  may  not  recognize  the  great  principle  of  brother- 
hood in  the  family  of  man. 

It  is  said  of  the  Bedouin  Arabs,  those  wandering  tribes 
that  traverse  the  deserts  of  Arabia,  that  they  admit 
every  stranger  to  their  hospitality  on  the  ground  that  he 
is  a  man,  and  thereby  a  brother.  They  neither  know  nor 
wish  to  know  anything  further  of  him  till  they  have  dis- 
charged the  common  rites  and  duties  of  hospitality, 
which  they  do  on  the  score  of  relationship.  This  they 
will  do  irrespective  of  moral  character.  Actmg  on  this 
principle  we  always  should,  but  for  the  fatal  distrust  of 
sin.  But  here  they  are  obliged  to  stop  and  act  on  the 
same  principles  of  distrust  as  other  men  do. 

Sin  Entailed  upon  the  Human  Family. — But  sin  is  more 
than  a  general  or  a  social  evil.  It  has  an  individuality, 
entailed,  in  the  direful  curse,  on  every  son  and  daughter 
of  Adam.  It  has  despoiled  man  of  his  innocence,  sunk 
him  in  ignorance,  degraded  his  nature,  and  blighted  his 
happiness.  "  It  has  multiplied  our  cares,  originated  our 
sorrows,  awakened  our  apprehensions,  and  let  loose  upon 
us  the  fury  of  evil  passions."  It  has  filled  the  heart  with 
discontent,  the  mind  with  uncertainty,  and  the  body  with 
pains.  Does  man  sigh  ? — is  his  soul  made  sick  by  the 
withering  stroke  of  affliction  ? — do  his  tears  flow  ? — is  he 
now  bending  over  the  death-couch  of  some  beloved  one  ? 
Ah !  it  is  sin  that  has  opened  these  avenues  of  woe  and 
made^man  to  mourn.  But  for  this  foU  destroyer  mam 
would  have  always  been  happy.  He  would  always  live 
in  the  sunshine  of  God's  countenance,  and  sorrow  and 
sighing  he  would  never  know.  Now  he  groans,  being 
burdened ;  now  he  looked  for  good  and  beheld  evil ;  now 
he  lives  aU  his  life  long  subject  to  bondage  through  the 
fear  of  death. 


BIN  THE  FOUNTAIN  OF  ALL  EVIL.  55 

.W.7  the  smae  of  the  Divine  oLpttTfcoro^TaA 
and  wretched  world;  in  Eden  it  filled  tte  raZesTof 
mortate  wuh  shame  and  remorse,  and  enLledC thi 

Zr"';1{:/r  °'  fr«;=  "madea^rltrrm*^! 
Ta        \n       •**  ***  ™'^  poUution  and  crime  till 

anguish.     These  are  thy  ravages,  O  sin  I 

M^t^^  But  we  result  t5ti;r:,zri» 

p  ris  s:'c j-^n.  3 

flow  of  Me ;  of  every  tear  that  falls ;  of  everT^ZohS 
ment,  loss  or  bereavement  we  snfTe; ;  of  Z^lTt. 
feel    How  grievous,  hateful,  ruinous  I   If  it  be  Uie  wi. 
of  all  evil,  it  n.ust  be  the  abominable  tilgw^cht^' 
hates.    For,  as  the  ControUer  of  aU  events   a  hT  T^ 

way  0    the  transgressor  hard,  we  may  be  sure  that  sin  i^ 
the  thing  h«  soul  hateth,  and  that  it  will  be  foUow^by 


56 


FOOT-PRINTS  OF  SATAN. 


I!  -m 


his  indignation  and  wrath ;  and  if  not  repented  of  and 
forsaken,  with  his  eternal  displeasure. 

We  have  charged  all  evil  on  sin.  We  now  charge  all 
sin  on  the  Devil.  He  decoyed  our  first  parents  into 
transgression,  and  is  thus  the  author  of  all  the  calamities 
which  have  befallen  our  hapless  race. 

In  our  bill  of  indictment  against  his  Satanic  Majestj, 
we  charge  upon  him  all  the  oppression ;  all  the  fraud  and 
corruption ;  all  the  licentiousness  and  intemperance ;  all 
the  wars  and  their  untold  desolations ;  all  the  natural 
evils  that  afflict  a  su£fering  race ;  all  social,  civil  and  do- 
mestic evils  that  changed  our  world  from  a  Paradise  to  a 
pandemonium ;  all  the  perversions  of  money,  time,  talent, 
influence,  custom,  fashion,  and  indeed  all  that  makes  our 
world  diflfer  from  that  beautiful,  pure,  holy,  happy  world 
where  first  dwelt  the  happy  pair,  basking  in  the  sunshine 
of  Heaven's  smiles,  fit  companions  of  angels,  and  in  de- 
lightful fellowship  with  God.    But  shall  not  these  halcyon 
days  return,  when   the  Usurper,  as  god  of  this  world, 
shall  be  bound  in  everlasting  chains  and  cast  out  forever  ? 
Then  shall  the  earth  be  transformed,  and  reassume  its 
primeval  beauty  as  it  came  from  the  hand  of  its  Creator ; 
then  shall  man  be  reinstated  in  the  image  of  his  God, 
and  righteousness,  and  peace,  and  heavenly  felicity  shall 
forever  dwell  in  the  abodes  of  men. 

The  Son  of  God  came  into  the  world  that  ho  might 
destroy  the  works  of  the  Devil.  The  triumph  of  our 
blessed  Redeemer  on  the  earth  will  be  the  final  overthrow 
of  Satan  and  the  complete  annihilation  of  sin.  Every 
advance  in  our  world  of  a  genuine  Christianity,  every 
Bible  translated,  circulated,  and  piously  read ;  every 
Christian  school  established;  every  gospel  sermon 
preached ;  every  Christian  principle,  grace  or  virtue  in- 
oulcatod,  is  so  much  done  toward  the  undermiring  and 
the  final  abolishing  the  empire  of  him  who  has  the  power 


SIN  SHALL  CEASE  TO  HAVE  DOMINION.  57 

Of  Sin.     Give  the  gospel  free  course  and  let  it  be  glorified 


-! 


it) 


f    !; 


HL 


THE  DEVIL  IN  BIBLE  TIMES. 


THE  DETHi  BEFORE  THE  DELUOE — ^m  OLD  TESTAMENT 
TIMES — HE  TURNS  THE  NATIONS  OP  THE  EARTH  TO' 
IDOLATRY — ^THE  DEVIL  IN  NEW  TESTAMENT  TIMES — ^HIS 
CORRUPTION  OP  THE  CHURCH — ^PAPAL  APOSTASY. 

But  let  us  pass  from  what  the  Devil  is  to  what  he  does, 
and  we  shall  see  little  occasion  to  change  our  estimate  of 
his  real  character,  or  of  the  relations  he  holds  to  the 
sons  of  men.  The  merest  glance  at  the  doings  of  the 
Devil,  as  detailed  in  the  history  of  the  world,  indicates 
the  controlling  position  he  holds  in  the  affairs  of  man. 
He  began  in  the  family  of  Adam.  And  "  how  earth  has 
felt  the  wound  "  the  direful  history  of  sin  doth  but  too 
sadly  tell.  If  we  could  measure  all  the  sighs  and  groans 
and  tears — all  the  sorrows  and  woes  that  sin  has  inflicted 
on  a  suffering  race — all  the  perversion  of  talent,  time,  in- 
fluence, wealth,  fashion,  custom — all  the  wastes  and  woes 
of  intemperance  and  war — all  that  oomes  of  murders, 
arsons,  robberies,  and  crime  of  every  name — ^if  we  could 
fathom  l^e  depth,  and  measure  the  height  and  length 
and  breadth  of  all  the  evil  sin  has  done  in  our  world,  we 
should  begin  to  comprehend  something  of  the  woful  his- 
tory of  him  who  has  the  power  of  sin. 


THE   BEVm  IN  OLDEN  TDCBS.  59 

^^r"^  G^s^rr  r'nr  ^^-^  ^ 

ffreftt  m  fh^        *u         ;        *^®  Wickedness  of  man  was 

r!JIi      ^  i^    ^^'^  *°^  degradation  of  sin  I   He  built 
long  standing   memorial   of   the   aDostasv     Hr. 

knew    God      no   longer  "glorified  him  aa  God  bat 
chimged  the  glory  of  the  inoorrnptible  God  into  i^2Z 

tter^i^'of  «T™P'*''  """•■  '"^«»''  idolat.;  ^d 
fh!«T*°    .^  *«*"  <"'^«'«'J  *•>«  «<«*•    Few  were 

rAe  £emi  «n  Old  TeslamaU  Kffl«._When  God  had 
chosen  from  among  the  apostate  nations  a  people  ttat 
Aonld  setve  him-,  people  whom  he  woKike  . 
model  natxon,  and  a  model  ohuroh ;  when  they  Te™  a^ 
yet  no  peopl^were  but  a  few  in  the  family  of  JZb!! 

ousy  of  the  Great  Adversary  aroused  to  thwart  the  kcip 

;t«ypt     And  worse  than  a  famine  do  the  wiies  of  th» 

1     I^'d  ^l      m"*  """'  '"°  «^°*""™  of  J""-!  bond- 

Xks^bv^r  ^'^  T  '"'^"P-  *^'"  by  "mighty 
works  -by  miracles,  he  should  dehver  them,  how  is  ha 
«  every  step  confronted,  as  we  have  seen,  b;  STpIc! 
of  Darkness;  who  also  had  power  to  work'mLeTesl^S! 


60 


THE  FOOT-PBINTS  OP  SATAN. 


if  possible,  to  deceive  the  very  elect.  As  Aaron  cast 
down  his  rod  it  became  a  serpent.  So  did  the  Magicians 
and  the  Sorcerers,  and  the  same  wonders  followed.  Yet 
the  greater  power  was  with  Aaron.  For  "  Aaron's  rod 
swallowed  up  their  rods."  The  ten  Plagues  followed. 
The  first  two  the  Magicians,  endowed  with  Satanic  power, 
successfully  imitated.  They  brought  up  frogs  upon  the 
land  and  turned  the  waters  into  blood. 

And  with  the  same  wicked  persistence  did  the  Enemy 
pursue  the  hosts  of  Israel  through  the  wilderness ;  throw- 
ing every  obstruction  in  their  way ;  making  them  a  prey 
to  their  enemies,  and  seducing  them  into  idolatry.  And 
when  they  had  become  a  nation  and  a  church  in  the 
promised  land,  how  did  he  pervert  their  Kings  and  cor- 
rupt their  rulers,  and  thus  provoke  the  Most  High  to  in- 
flict his  judgments  upon  them  ?  And  again,  with  a  like 
wicked  persistence  has  he  followed  the  Church  in  every 
age  since ;  the  unrelenting  foe  of  everything  good ;  the 
abettor  and  active,  malignant  agent  of  everything  evil. 

But  we  may  not  pass  over  this  long  and  eventful  por- 
tion of  the  world's  history  so  hastily.  We  never  cease 
to  retrace  the  history  of  the  chosen  people,  from  the  time 
of  their  deliverance  from  Egyptian  bondage  to  their  en- 
trance into  the  promised  land  ;  and  then  onward  through 
their  whole  future  career.  But  at  every  step  of  their 
progress  we  detect  the  unmistakable  footprints  of  the 
great  antagonistic  Power,  the  prime  object  of  whose  cor- 
rupt soul  has  been,  from  the  beginning,  to  thwart  and,  if 
possible,  to  annihilate  the  Church  of  God.  But  if  he 
might  not  arrest  and  destroy,  he  would  so  secularize, 
corrupt,  and  demoralize  the  Church  as  to  divest  her  of 
moral  power.  Hence  we  may  trace  up  the  record  of 
his  doings,  as  he  followed  along  the  line  of  the  true 
Church  with  a  malignant  persistency  befitting  the  malig- 
nity of  his  nature.    How  he  dared  to  assail  even  the 


THE  DEVIL  AT  MOUNT  SINAI. 


61 


good  father  of  the  faithful,  leaving  a  soar  on  his  fair 
character,  by  making  him  he  to  Abimeleoh,  king  of  Gazar 
denying  that  Sarai  was  his  wife.    How  Isaac  was  as- 
sailed and  tempted  to  do  the  same  foohsh  thing  and 
Jacob  was  made  to  defraud  his  brother  of  his  birthriRht 
How  Eeuben  defiled  his  father's  bed  with  Bilhah  his 
father  s  concubine,  and  Simeon  and  Levi  assist  in  the 
murder  of  the  Shechemites;  and  how  the  sons  of  Jacob. 
mih  murder  in  their  hearts,  conspire  against  Joseph. 
He  was  sold  mto  Egypt  and  consigned  to  a  hopeless 
bondag^a  prelude  to  that  gaUing  captivity  into  which 
the  whole  chosen  seed  were  afterwards  subjected     This 
wras  the  hour  and  power  of  darkness.     The  gates  of  heU 
seemed  to  have  prevailed  against  the  Lord's  Anointed. 
But  the  tnumph  was  short.    The  chosen  people,  though 
not  without  the  most  persistent  audacity  and  opposition 
of  the  Devil,  were  at  length  deUvered  from  their  thrafl- 
dom,  brought  out  with  a  mighty  hand  and  an  outstretched 
arm    earned  dry-shod  through  the  Bed  Sea,  and  con- 
ducted through  the  wilderness  in  despite  of  combined  and 
most  formidable  foes,  instigated  at  every  step  by  the  wiles 
of  the  great  Adversary. 

They  pass  on  and  come  to  Mount  Sinai.     Here  they 
are  to  receive  the  law,  a  direct  Bevelation  from  Hea- 
ven ;  and  thereby  to  inaugurate  one  of  the  most  signal 
advancements  that  characterize  the  history  of  the  Church 
God  now-revealed  himself  as  never  before ;  not  by  the 
giving  of  the  Law  alone,  but  by  signs  and   wonders. 
Ihere  were  thunders  and  hghtnings,  and  a  thick  cloud 
upon  the  mountain,  and  the  voice  of  the  trumpet  ex- 
ceedmg  loud,  so  that  all  the  people  trembled  "    The 
mountain  burned  with  fire,  and  there  was  blackness  and 
darkness  and  tempest,  so  that  Moses  did  exceedingly 
fear  and  quake.  '' 

And  the  Devil  trembled.     Fearfulness  took  hold  upon 


FOOT-PBINTS  OF    SATAN. 

hitn.  Here  was  the  power  of  God— God  clothed  in  ter- 
rific majesty.  The  heavens  were  moved.  The  thunder 
and  the  lightning  spake.  The  trumpet  of  God  uttered 
its  voice.  All  these  were  awfully  impressive  demonstra- 
tions that  God  was  real — that  God  was  near.  And 
would  not  the  people  now  and  forever  afterwards  be- 
lieve and  obey  and  ever  own  an  eternal  allegiance  to 
such  a  God  ?  Something  must  be  done.  Satan  to  the 
rescue.    And  what  did  he  do  ? 

Mosos  had  gone  up  into  the  mountain,  and  a  cloud 
had  shut  him  out  from  the  people.     Here  he  remained 
forty  days  and  forty  nights,  conversing  with  God  and 
receiving  from  his  mouth  the  law  and  the  command- 
ments.    This  was  Satan's  time.     Something  must  bo 
done.     He  stirred  up  the  people  to  distrust  Moses, 
insinuating  that  he  had  gone  no  more  to  return.     He 
now  resorted  to  wiles  not  unlike  what  he  did  centuries 
afterwards  when  God  became  manifest  in  the  flesh,  in 
the  person  of  our  Emanuel.    When  the  people  heard 
him  gladly,  declaring  that  "  never  man  spake  like  this 
man;"  "then  cometh  the  Devil  and  takefch  away  the 
word  out  of  their  hearts,  lest  they  should  believe  and  be 
saved."    And,    personating    their  master,  the    "chief 
priests  and  Pharisees,"  on  another  occasion,  "  gathered 
a  council  and  said :    '  What  do  we  ?  for  this  man  doeth 
many  miracles.     If  we  let  him  thus  alone,  aU  men  iviU 
bdieve  on  him.'"    They  must  in  some  way  bring  re- 
proach  and  distrust  upon  the  great  Teacher,  and,  if 
possible,  neutralize  his  teachings. 

So  did  the  Devil  before  Sinai.  A  desperate  re- 
sistance must  be  made  against  these  new  revelations  of 
Heaven,  and  the  advanced  dispensation  of  divine  grace. 
Hence  he  entered  into  Aaron,  stirring  up  his  jealousy, 
perhaps  firing  his  ambition  to  be  captain  rather  than 
the  priest  of  Israel,  and  prompting  him  to  seduce  the 


THE  DE7IL  AND  THE  KINGS  OP  ISRAEL.  68 

people  to  idolatry.     He  made  the  golden  calf,  and  said 

out  of  Egypt  A  desperate  measure  to  meet  a  despe- 
rate case.  An  advanced  step  had  been  taken  on  the 
K/r^r^'-  ^*--*^«-*-^-«i«tedby 
Under  the  same  Satanic  influence  Nadab  and  Abihu 
"offer  strange  fire  before  the  Lord."  When  the  people 
murmur  and  cry  for  flesh,  Miriam  and  Aaron  raise  a 

TorJ  IT.tTl  ^r '•     '^^'  "  'P^'  "  ^'^^  *  ^-1««  re- 
port of  the  land  and  discourage  the  hearts  of  the  peo- 

fh!"n  J^I  *^,".^"«*^g^*io°  °^  the  Bame  spirit,  Korah,  Da- 
than  and  Abiram  stir  up  a  rebellion  in  the  camp  and 
disturb   Israel.     At    Mount    Hor  the  people  "speak 
against  God  and  against  Moses  because  of  the  way" 
And  m  the  matter  of  Balaam,  and  the  whoredoms  with 
the  daughters  of  Moab;  and  the  worship  of  Baal-peor- 
and  the  cunning  trick  of  the  Gibeonites,  and  how  all 
a  ong  no  scheme  was  left  untried  to  turn  away  the  peo- 
ple from  the  worship  of  the  true  God  to  idols.     Baal 
aiid  Astaroth,  Baalim  and  Baal-berith,  in  turn  became 
their  gods. 

^   And  more  narked  still  were  the  doings  of  the  Deril 
in  connection  with  the  kings  of  Israel.     Saul  was  pos- 
sessed of  an  evil  spirit-was  sent  by  it  to  the  witch  of 
Endor;    and    finally  was  made  to  do  many  devilish 
things  and  at  last  moved  to  commit  suicide.    The  good 
man  David  was   not  beyond  the  reach  of  the  same 
Arch  Seducer.     In  the  affair  of  Uriah  he  yielded  to 
the  Tempter,  and  left  on  his  record  an  indelible  scar  of 
his  conflict  w'ith  the  Foe.     Solomon,  the  great  and  the 
wise,  was  a  shining  mark  not  to  be  missed.     Through 
yine  and  women  the  Seducer  beguiled  him,   so  that 
vanity  of  vanities"  might  seem  to  be  written  on  his 
tomb-stone.    With  his  thousand  and  one  wives  and  con- 


ei 


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I  I 


'! 


FOOT-HUNTS  OP  SATAN. 


oubines,  we  find  him  seduced  away  unto  idols,  oflfering 
sacrifice,  burning  incense,  and  doing  homage  to  inani- 
mate gods.  A  sad  triumph  of  the  Devil  over  one  of  the 
most  honored,  gifted  and  favored  of  men ;  the  noblest 
specimen  of  Divine  workmanship  among  men. 

But  this  •*  Troubler  of  Israel "  ceased  not  his  mischief. 
Having  achieved  a  signal  triumph  over  one  whom  God 
had  especially  favored,  and  the  nations  delighted   to 
honor,  he  stirs  up  the  successor  of  Solomon  to  alienate 
the  Ten  Tribes — to  divide  the  nation,  to  sow  the  seeds  of 
hate,  alienation  and  rivalry,  to  weaken  both  divisions, 
and  thus  sadly  to  impair  the  influence  upon  the  Gentile 
nations  which  this  nation,  chosen  of  Heaven,  would  other- 
wise have  had.    And  henceforward  he  goes  on  doing  a 
double  work,  tampering  with  both  parties,  stirring  up 
jealousies,  provoking  seditions,  rebellions  and  wars ;  any- 
thing which  should  tend  to  weaken,  alienate  aud  mono- 
polize the  influence,  the  resources  and  agencies  of  the 
chosen  people,  and  divert  them  from  the  great,  ennobling, 
elevating  object  which  Israel's  God  and  every  Israelite 
proposed  to  accomplish  bv  the   national  and    church 
organization  of  this  extrao;<.inary  people. 

The  first  and  most  obvious  result  of  this  division  was  a 
disastrous  war— the  Devil's  delight— with  a  slaughter  on 
the  one  side  of  800,000  men,  and  on  the  other  of  400,000 ; 
accompanied  by  all  the  distractions,  demoralizations,' 
wastes  and  woes  of  war. 

He  turns  the  Nations  of  the  Earih  to  Id6'airy.—'We  may 
follow  on  in  the  track  of  either  of  these  kingdoms,  and 
we  find  the  Devil  incessantly  and  infernally  at  work,  cor- 
rupting the  worship  of  the  true  God,  decoying  to  idol- 
atry, and  always  instigating  to  wars.  His  most  persist- 
ent and  successful  aggressions  seem,  for  some  reason, 
to  have  been  in  the  line  of  the  kingdom  of  Israel,  and 
reached  the  climacteric  of  civil  corruption  and  haaven- 


I 


THE  WICKED  AHAB  AND  JEZEBEL.         ^,5 

daring  wickedness,  in  the  reign  of  «wiok.,d   Ai    k-      . 
hi8  jet  more  wicked  wife  Jezebel      ^,'''*'^^<^^^Abab,"  and 

of  a  heathen  prince.  lufel utf  Ah^'h^  ''?'*^' 
served  Baal  and  worshipped  IHn,  An  1  K  '''''*  ^^^ 
altar  for  Baal  in  the  fiou«V  nf  «  i  u  ,'^  ^^  ""^^^^^  »« 
And  Ahab  made  a  .rove  .nl  ff  "'"^  ^^  ^^^  b^^*' 
Lord  God  of  iBraelCan' er  Ln  alTr  I'  ^"^^'^  *^« 
that  were  before  him  "  And  bl  I  ^'"^'  °'  ^^^^^^ 
himself,  hedidmuctmot  by  rf^^^^^^^^  'V^^^^ 
wicked  wife.  Forshe'.made'hmtoi''  tL"^!"! 
Naboth  and  his  vineyard    and  Ah„K'      1      ■        ^^''''^  °^ 

his  grandfather,  whose  evil  nature  hTsIn.^^  ?  •  f"^' 
had  prepared  the  way  for  his  Z  trrtr^i '°  '"';";;'• 
Bevil  urged  poor  Ahaz  on  an.l  1a^  o  a^^  ^'  ^^® 
him  into  Molatrj  and  impLt^^^^^^^^^^  ^1^  P"^^^^ 

his  sottish.ess  Ifter  th^^lTt':  sTriaT.  '^f  \^ 
hatied  of  thu  worship  of  the  true  GorJ  Si  .  ^"^  ^'^ 
temple  and  forbid  the'people  to'offt lac^^^^^^^^^  *'! 

deeper  was  Manasseh  pWed  in  tLTu        J^^  ^^^ 

device.  ^eai,t,j^zf.:::^r^i^^^^^^ 

Lord,  like  unto  the  abominations  of  fhl  I    !?         *^® 
«  showed  himself  in  every  r^soeot  .  i    .  ""•    ^^ 

the  Deva"    He  buil7,m  f ^  ?    u    ,"^*^<^«r-workman  for 
broken  .  .wn,tJi:d*X  r^^^^^^^^^  f  ^^  ^^d 

open  patron  of  idolatry.    He  defiled  t^^  f       f'T'  "^ 
committed  sacrilege  «  slew  Xtf  ^""P^®  ^^  ^"d, 

and  innndated  iU^  ^^^~re^.  P^f  «•»• 
who  at  no  great  remove  succeeded  him'S    •  ^^ 

"  his  palaces  were  founded  in  bl^riTlSr  T/f' 
rapine.    He  falsely  accused  the  kmr^V^       "^"'^  ''? 

he  might  conden^  the.  tta^rclrtr,."S: 

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60 


FOOT-PIUNTS  OP  SATAN. 


property."    In  him  the  Devil  had  a  man  after  his  own 
heart. 

But  the  end  drew  near.    Indignant  ^eaven  could  no 
longer  endure.      Yielding  to    the    instigations    of   the 
Tempter,  the  church  had  become  cornipt,  the  nation  de- 
moralized, the  long-suffering  of  Heaven  exhausted,  and 
the  day  of  recompense  had  come.      The  Enemy  had 
Beemingly  triumphed.    Jerusalem  was  laid  in  ruins.    Her 
people  were  carried  into  captivity.    The  nation  and  the 
church  were  dissolved.    The  Temple,  the  pride  and  glory 
of  Israel,  was  burnt  with  fire,  and  all  the  holy  things 
desecrated,  if  not  destroyed.    "Thy  holy  cities  are  a 
wilderness.    Zion  is  a  wilderness,  Jerusalem  a  desolation. 
Our  holy  and  beautiful  house,  where  our  fathers  praised 
thee,  is  burned  with  fire ;  and  all  our  pleasant  things  are 
laid  waste."     "  How  doth  the  city  sit  solitary  that  was 
full  of  people  I  how  has  she  become  a  widow  !    She  was 
great  among  the  nations,  and  a  princess  among  the 
provinces;  how  has  she  become  tributary  I    How  is  the 
gold  become  dim  I  the  most  fine  gold  changed  I     The 
stones  of  the  sanctuary  are  poured  out  in  the  top  of 
every  street.    From  the  daughter  of  Zion  all  her  beauty 
is  departed." 

Every  sin  and  transgression,  every  act  of  ingratitude 
and  rebellion,  which  had  brought  these  dire  calamities  on 
the  nation,  were  the  instigations  of  the  Adversary ;  all 
demonstrations  of  his  eternal  enmity  against  the  God  of 
heaven.  But  there  is  a  "  stronger  than  he,"  who  shall 
take  away  the  armor  in  which  he  trusts — cast  him  out, 
and  restore  the  ruins  of  the  fall.  Jerusalem  shall  be 
built  again ;  the  captives  restored,  and  Zion  again  become 
the  glory  of  the  whole  earth. 

The  Devil  in  New  Testament  Times. — The  doings  of  the 
Devil  alluded  to  in  the  portion  of  history  under  consid- 
eration, did  not  differ  essentially  from  his  doings  in  every 


THE  DAY-DAWN-THB    MORNINa  COMETH  67 

lion  going  about  soekkg  whom  he  may  devour  * 

But  we  wiU  pass  over  (he  period  that  intemned  I« 

i^utfirorrrked';!^"' 7jt:^^^ 
rs^^hCtrtrcurtfjtrXr "-'  "^-^ 

d^^«  aud  darker  tiU  the  "X  SattdXf  Z^ 
,„,^^  ''•°\"'*°  ™'  ""^  ^'""^  "-"l  Power  of  Darkness 

claimed  liberty  to  the  captives  and  the  Zlir  o^th." 
pnson  to  them  that  are  bo^d.  The  vfle  DsZfsawt 
th«  rising  Star  of  Bethlehem,  the  OreatoX  JeS 

IZ      'llf'*,^''"'""  °'  ">«  ™'W  coming  to  vM 
oate  his  right,  to  cast  out  and  destroy  the  Usurper  ,nd 
take  possession  of  this  apostatized  world.    r^L™ 
atioa  It  had  become  the  domain  of  the  enlmv     He 

been  almost  umveraally  conceded.    The  Babe  of  Bethle 
hem,  the  Saviour,  the  Prince  of  Peace,  and  the  rthtM 
Proprietor  came  to  his  own,  and  none  better  thrt 
Usurper  knew  that  ere  long  he  should  take  the  Sn^^dlt 


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68 


POOT-PRINTS  OP  SATAN. 


! 


The  earth  had  become  dreadfully  corrapi  The  Je'v- 
ish  nation  had  grievously  apostatized.  Josephus  chafac- 
terized  the  Jews  as  more  desperately  wicked  than  the 
people  of  Sodom.  Tacitus  apprehends  the  destruction 
of  the  world  on  account  of  its  hopeless  corruption. 
Seneca  says  "  all  is  replete  with  crime.  Vice  everywhere 
abounds.  While  habit  daily  grows  into  sin,  shame  is 
rapidly  declining.  Veneration  for  what  is  good  and  pure 
is  unknown.  Vice  is  no  longer  the  occupant  of  secret 
places,  but  is  made  public  before  all  eyes."  With  such 
a  degenerate,  hopeless  condition  of  the  world,  do  we 
wonder  there  was  among  the  few  reflecting  ones  a  yearn- 
ing, longing,  desperate  waiting  for  a  Deliverer?  Pagan 
philosophy  was  of  no  avail.  Pagan  creeds  had  failed. 
Not  the  few  in  Judea,  not  the  "  wise  men  of  the  Ea&t " 
only,  were  looking  for  deliverance,  and  expecting  a  Deli- 
verer. For  there  was  among  the  nations  a  general  ex- 
pectation that  gracious  Heaven  would  interpose  and 
come  to  the  rescue  of  a  suffering  race.  The  Romans 
were  expecting  it.  The  Chinese,  the  Hindoos,  the  Per- 
sians were  looking  for  the  "  Ho^y  One  to  appear  in  the 
West." 

The  Devil  saw  all  this,  and  fearfulness.  took  hold  upon 
him.  He  saw  a  "  stronger  than  he  "  about  to  come,  who 
should  dispossess  him  of  his  usurped  dominions  and 
cast  him  out  forever.  He  rose  in  his  wrath.  If  he  could 
not  rule  he  would  ruin.  And  "  woe  to  the  inhabitants  of 
the  earth,  for  the  Devil  came  down  unto  them  having 
great  wrath  because  he  knew  he  had  but  a  short  time." 
He  was  allowed  sorely  to  afflict  the  nations.  As  the  first 
glimmering  of  the  Day  Spring  from  on  high  arose  the 
wrath  of  earth's  great  Foe  was  kindled  anew ;  and  earth 
soon  felt  the  wound.  It  was  a  day  of  trouble.  He  that 
had  the  power  of  sin  and  death  now  broke  from  his  re- 
straints and  was  allowed  for  a  little  time  to  scourge  the 


PESTILENCE  GOES  BEFORE  HIM. 


69 


nations.  A  deadly  pestilence  swept  over  the  Roman 
Empire.  And  the  same  dread  calamity  spread  over 
Ethiopia,  Lybia,  Egypt,  India,  Syria,  Phoenicia;  and 
over  the  Greek  and  Persian  empires,  and  "over  adjacent 
countries  f  and  raged  for  fifteen  years.  Again  this  feU 
destroyer  starts  out  from  the  ruins  of  Carthage,  and 
spreads  its  direful  ravages  over  Africa.  In  Numidia 
alone  it  numbered  no  less  than  800,000  victims  Two 
years  only  before  the  birth  of  Christ  pestilence  again 
walked  m  darkness  over  Italy,  and  "few  people  were  left 
to  cultivate  the  land." 

The  whole  creation  groaned  and  travailed  in  pain 
Now  came  the  dying  struggle  of  the  Prince  of  the  power 
of  the  air.    Or  rather  it  was  the  fearful  beginning  of  the 
end— the  last  desperate  onslaught  to  wrest  this  world 
from  the  rightful  owner,  and  to  make  it  a  pandemonium. 
Wo ;  not  the  last  deadly  struggle.    The  Babe  of  Bethle- 
hem is  bom;  the  long-expected  Messiah  is  come.  Angels 
Bing  "glory  to  God  in  the  Highest,  and  on  earth  peace, 
good-will  toward  men."    Waiting  saints  welcome  him  as 
Him  that  should  come,  the  Light  of  the  world,  and  its 
fanal  Kmg.    The  wise  men  of  the  East  see  his  star  and 
come  to  worship  him.     While  yet  an  helpless  infant  in 
his  cradle  he  is  hailed  as  the  incarnate  God,  the  Eman- 
uel,  God  with  us-"  a  Light  to  lighten  the  Gentiles,  and 
the  glory  of  Israel."    And  how  at  this  juncture  must  the 
Arjh  Fiend  have  writhed  in  demoniac  anguish  over  this 
newly  risen  Light,  and  at  length  fixed  on  the  desperate 
expedient.    He  had  a  faithful  ally  in  the   king     The 
child  must  be  destroyed ;  and  Herod  became  the  wicked 
and  willing  accomplice.    The  decree  goes  out  to  slay  aU 
the  children  of  two  years  old  and  under,  with  intent  to 
kill  him  who  was  born  King  of  the  Jews,  and  thus  foil 
the  purposes  of  God  in  the  advent  of  his  Son.     It  was  a 
desperate  throw,  and  no  credit  to  the  Devil  that  it  so 


11 ; 


70 


POOT-PBINTS  OP  SATAN. 


signaUy  failed.  Nor  did  he  now  yield  his  infernal  pur- 
pose. Though  defeated  he  was  not  destroyed.  As  the 
great  Teucher  and  Mediator  between  God  and  man  was 
about  to  enter  on  his  public  ministry  he  confronts  him  in 
the  wilderness  with  a  presumption  and  fiendish  impudence 
peculiarly  his  own.  By  three  successive  temptations, 
each  more  seductive  than  the  preceding,  the  grand  attack 
was  made,  and  the  crafty  wiles  of  the  Tempter  were 
frustrated.  The  «  Strong  Man  armed  "  had  proved  more 
than  a  match  for  him;  yet  he  yielded  not  his  infernal 

purpose.  What  ho  could  not  hinder  or  destroy,  he  would 
pervert  or  corrupt. 

Instigated  by  the  Prince   of   Darkness   Pilate  and 
Herod  were  made  friends  that  they  might  compass  the 
death  of  the  Incarnate  One.    And  then  confederated 
with  Scribes,  Pharisees,  and  priests,  and  with  Judas 
into  whom  the  Devil  entered,  they  the  more  easily  con- 
summated the  diabolical  deed.    When  they  had  secured 
the  crvclfixim  of  their  iUustrious  victim,  they  supposed 
they  had  covered  his  name  with  an  eternal  infamy.    No 
one  would  believe  on  a  crwcified  one.    Yet  the  Cross 
which  they  counted  should  be  the  death-blow  to  Chris- 
tianity became  the  rallying  point,  the  glory,  the  grand 
centre  of  Christianity.    Armed  with  the  "power"  of  a 
Pentecostal  baptism,  the  invading  waves  of   the  new 
Eehgion  rolled  on  from  tribe  to  tribe,  from  nation  to 
nation,  giving  no  doubtful  signs  of  universal  conquest. 
Though  so  signally  discomfited  at  Calvary,  the  Enemy 
pursued  the  onward  marching  hosts  with   firebrands 
arrows,  and  death;  with  a  violence  which  threatened  no 
uncertam  annihilation.    Ten  relentless  persecutions  fol- 
lowed; and  nothing  but  the  interposing  arm  of  Heaven 
saved  the  Church  from  a  final  extinction.    The  Enemy 
struck  his  deadly  blow,  meaning  nothing  short  of  annihi- 
lation. 


PL 


fuOr.i'JiJMTS  OF  SATAK-AS  SEE.V  IN  THE  TE.\ 


tfPTATIOX  ON  THE  MOUNT. 


BISB    OF  THE  OBEAT  APOSTASY. 


71 


His  Corruptiok  of  the  Church.— The  next  deadly  device 
was  to  oomipt  the  Church.  Having  faUed  to  destroy,  he 
now  set  himself  to  emasculate  Christianity  of  its  manly 
vigor,  to  divorce  it  from  the  power  of  holiness  and  make 
it  a  secular  power.  And  how  the  Christian  church  was 
corrupted— how  the  name  and  the  form  were  retained, 
yet  divested  of  its  spirit  and  life,  let  the  history  of  every 
form  of  spurious  Christianity  tell.  Side  by  side  has  our 
sleepless  Foe  contended  with  the  great  Captain  of  our 
Salvation,  intent  to  corrupt  and  neutraUze,  if  he  cannot 
arrest  the  onward  progress  of  Christianity. 

He  carefully  watches  the  progress  of  civilization,  of 
education,  and  society— takes  note  of  the  spirit  of  the 
age,  and  favors  and  preaches  a  Christianity  suited  to  the 
times.  Yet  false  religions  in  general  are  rather  local, 
temporary,  changing  to  suit  times  and  circumstances- 
to  meet  the  mutations  of  man's  changing  condition. 
The  great,  standing  monument  of  Satanic  invention, 
power,  and  skill  to  originate,  mature,  and  propagate  a 
religious  system,  is  the  Papacy;  a  religious  organization 
embracing  200,000,000  souls ;  bound  in  the  chains  of  an 
unmitigated  spiritual  despotism,  yet  called  by  the  name 
of  Christ  and  claiming  to  be  Christian.  We  may  pro- 
bably accept  this  as  the  final  consummation  of  what 
human  wisdom  and  ingenuity,  combined  with  the  wisdom 
and  craft  of  the  Great  Adversary,  could  do  to  put  forth 
a  grand  religious  delusion,  a  gorgeous,  seductive  counter- 
feit of  the  Christian  Church,  whose  lettering  and  su- 
perscription should  be  those  of  the  genuine  coin— a 
compound  and  compromise  of  Christianity,  Judaism, 
Idolatry,  Mohammedanism,  and  Infidelity,  aJi  hashed 
and  harmonized  so  as  to  meet  the  demands  of  the  relir 
gious  and  the  irrehgious,  of  the  iraage-worshipper,  the 
skeptic,  and  the  nominal  Christian.  It  is  probably  the 
Masterpiece  of  the  great  Anti-Christ,  now  being  rapidly 


m 


72 


THE  POOT-PRINTS  OF  SATAN. 


laiii 


revealed  and  hastening  its  final  consummation,  yet  per- 
haps still  to  undergo  modifications  to  meet  the  coming 
phases  of  a  progressive  age. 

Indeed,  the  forewarning  of   our  divine  Lord  more 
than  intimated  the  fierce  conflict  the  Christian  Church 
should,  from  the  very  outset,  have  with  her  Arch  Foe. 
He  should  appear  clad  in  sacerdotal  robes — claiming  to 
be  Christ — sitting  in  the  temple  of  God,  showing  him- 
self that  he  is  God.     Most  distinctly  did  Ohriet  fore- 
wa.  r:  the  early  Christians  of  the  formidable  Enemy  his 
religion  would  have  to  encounter — and  this  too  in  its 
most  incipient  beginnings.    "There  shall  arise    false 
«  Christs  iijiid  false  prophets,  and  shall  show  great  signs 
and  wonders,  inasmuch,  that  if  it  were  possible,  they 
shall  deceive  the  very  elect."    And  what  are  these  but 
miracles  ?    And  those  "  three  unclean  spirits  like  frogs," 
which  John  saw,  "  come  out  of  the  mouth  of  the  Dra- 
gon, and  out  of  the  mouth  of  the  Beast,  and  out  of  the 
mouth  of  the  false  Prophet.'    For  they  are  the  spirits  of 
devils,  working  miracles,  which  go  forth  unto  the  kings 
of  the  earth  and  the  whole  world,  and  gather  them  to 
the  battle  of  that  great  day  of  God  Almighty."    From 
the  beginning,  from  the  cradle  in  Bethlehem   to  the 
great  and  dreadful  crisis,  the  final  decisive  battle,  the 
wasfare  shall  go  on. 

And  again,  "  he  doeth  great  wonders,  so  that  he  mak- 
eth  fire  come  down  from  heaven  on  the  earth  in  the 
sight  of  men.  And  deceiveth  them  that  dwell  on  the 
earth  by  the  means  of  those  miracles  which  he  had 
power  to  do  in  the  sight  of  the  Beast,  saying  to  them 
that  dwell  on  the  earth,  that  they  shciuld  make  an 
image  to  tho  Beast.  And  he  had  powor  to  give  life  * 
unto  the  irnfige  of  the  Beast,  that  the  image  of  the 
Beast  shouid  both  speak  and  caue-  rl-at  as  many  as 
would  not  worship  the  image  of  the  Bai"t  should  be  killed. 


POLmos  AND  pounouNs.  73 

Need  we  seek  further  for  an  identification  of  hia  Sa- 
tanic Majesty  with  that  great  persecuting  power  that 

Z  ''.•1  "^^"*^'  '''''  deeeiva'bleness  of'u^  t 
^ess  which  we  are  wont  to  identify  as  the  scarlet  Beas^ 
or  tbe  great  Antichrist  ? 

Again,  we  might  enlarge  on  the  Devfl's  doings  in  the 
pol  teal  arena.  The  world's  history  is  largely  made  up 
of  the  wars  and  commotions  and  political  intrigues  of 

too  often  been  content  to  serve  the  Devil  rather  th^ 
their  na  .on  or  their  God.     And  what  use  this  ««,!? 

despotism,  oppression,  demagogism  and  chicane.^  of 

But  we  shall  leave  with  others  to  gauge,  if  they  can 
the  dimensions  of  the  DevU's  activitie's  in  thT  cM 
affairs  of  the  world-how  governmental  power  is  large^ 
used  to  favor  his  nefarious  schemes-how  pouSs 

and  efficient  coadjutors  in  carrying  out  his  desgns  ij 
the  corruption  id  ruin  of  man.  As  a  temporal  S^c" 
and  in  his  oontro  of  the  social,  civil  and  sLlar  E 
of  the  world,  he  has  a  broad  and  open  field,  and  nev« 

the  spiritual  interests  of  man  that  he  displays  his  great 

W-ece  and  his  stronghold.     We  shaU.  in  its  place  ii. 
the  present  volume,  treat  this  topic  more  in  detoU 

necZn.  '"""""'^  ™"  ""^  "^"^  '°  *^«  P"^""  «=<'^ 

Man  is  a  religious  being-has  impknted  in  him  a  reU- 

gious  instinct.    Hence  he  must  and  will  have  a^eU^l 

of  some  sort     And  in  whatever  form  it  comes,  his  rX 


74 


FOOT-PBINTS  OP  SATAN. 


gion  has  over  him  a  strong,  controlling  influence.     The 
Christian  will  go  to  the  stake,  the  block,  "or  face  the  tor- 
tures of  the  Inquisition  for  his  religion.    The  votary  of 
idolatry  will  go  on  long  pilgrimages,  walk  on  spikes, 
lacerate  his  flesh,  swing  on  the  hook§.      There  is  per- 
haps no  stronger  element  at  work  among  men  than  that 
of  religion.     And  no  one  understands  this  better  than 
the  Devil.     And  he  is  fully  on  the  alert  to  improve 
every  advantage  he  may  thereby  gain.     Here  we  meet 
our  enemy  at  home,  and  in  his  great  strength.    He  has 
intrenched  himself  in  the  citadel  of  rehgion,  and  has 
thence  from  the  earliest  ages  ruled  the  nations.     The 
exceptions  to  this  rule  have  been,  not  nations,  but  indi- 
viduals, or  at  most,  communities.      Hence  the  master- 
stroke of  the  Devil  has  been  to  pervert  and  corrupt  re- 
ligion, and  thus   monopolize  for  himself   its  mighty 
power.     The  history  of  all  false  religions  abundantly 
sustains  the  assumption  that  here  is  his  stronghold. 
Here  especially  does  he  appear  as  "  the  father  of  lies." 
In  Eden  he  began  the  work  of  his  great  and  fatal  delu- 
sion.    God  had  said,  the  "soul  that  sinneth  it  shaU 
die."    Satan  said,  « thou  shalt  not  die."    Ai.i  so  he  has 
been  saying  in  all  time  since.    By  blinding  the  mind,  by 
perverting  God's  truth,  by  presenting  false  atonements 
for  sm,  and  substituting  the  form  for  the  life  of  rehgion,' 
he  has  deceived  the  naH  >ns,  and  set  them  wandering 
after  idols— or  after  the  Beast  or  the  false  Prophet. 

A  marked  feature  in  our  Enemy's  doings  here  (which 
we  shaU  iUustrate  more  fully  hereafter)  is  his  intense  and 
persistent  rivahry  in  following  up  and  keeping  alongside 
with  God  in  all  his  dispensations  of  the  true  Eehgion. 
In  every  advancement  of  the  church  and  new  revelation 
of  the  truth,  from  Adam  to  Moses,  from  Moses  to  Christ, 
and  so  onward  to  the  present  moment,  the  Devil  has 
een  ready  with  a  counterfeit  to  meet  and  thereby  per- 


OBtaiH  IBD   HmOBT  OF  HWUTBI  78 

vert  enty  progreadTe  deyelopment  of  the  true  reliirin,, 
,     Almost  at  the  outeet.  ™.der  the  P.tri.rchalX,^C 
hepenrertedtheidea  of  worshipping  the  o.^"" 
S^'if  ^  .     "'ta'd'>»i<.g  what  seemed  to  be  a  venr  pW 
Ale.  If  Bot  i^ruJess  substitute,  of  worshipping  7h!Z 
moon  and  stars  „  the  most  ostensible  rematiou'^f 

Si  fl,  \""1"  ""  '"'*'^8  °"»  of  Satanic  ^^s 
and  the  nataral  promptings  of  hmnan  deprayity  ™^ 
nateaUy  matured  into  bold  idolatry:  first,  tie  w^ 

utr  ,.      '•.*^;  workmanship  of  human  hands 
Upon  the  introduction  of  the  Mosaic  dispensatioB 
•doUtrous  systems  were  revolutionized  and  mcSfied^ 
as  to  meet  the  progress  of  the  times,  that  theTatioM 
should  not  revolt  and  throw  o£F  the  yoie  of  the  TJs^ 
And  more  especiaDy  when  Christ  came,  and  a  yet  c  W 
Lght  shone  out  from  the  hill  of  Zion  and  made^sib  e  tte 

of  India,  of  China  and  adjacent  counh-ies-were  ^ 
baUy  modified ;  grosser  features  were  discardTauTZ" 
S^r  Tr*^  resemblances  of  the  truth,  ev«irf 
(ansban  truth    were  now  inoculated  into  tLose   old 

more  than  to  change  the  truth  of  God  into  a  Ue.  While 
Uie  nations  of  Western  Asia  and  of  Eastern  Europe 
bemg  now  too  greatly  enUghtened  longer  to  remain  sat^: 
fied  Witt,  tte  form  of  idolatry,  were  accommodated,  by 
the  aroh  P^erter,  with  an  amalgam  of  Ohrisaaiity! 
Judaism  and  Pagan  Idolatry,  which  should  satisfy  the 
rehgious  mstmct,  serve  the  purposes  of  the  Devil  vet 
have  some  plausible  show  of  the  truth.  Hence'  L 
device  of  Mohammedanism,  with  a  headship,    not  of 

mL^  ^°°°'  '^'"''  •"*'  "*   "■*  ^PJ**'  oi 

The  Papal  Apoetasy.-Bnt  the  most  plausible,  perfect 


mpp 


ii 


76 


THS  FOOT-PRIFra  OF  8ATAM. 


and  8ucfv)j(»{j}  couiicerfeifc  was  yet  to  be  introduced.    The 
Lighb  irom  Aouni  Zion  had  shone  too  olearlj  on  the 
Wewtem  nations  to  allow  the  people  of  those  nations  to 
be  satisfied  even  with  the  oonipromise  of  Mecca.    They 
must  and  would  have  Christianity.    Nothing  less  would 
satisfy  them.    And  fbc    l     i    said,  yea ;   and  he  gave 
them  Ohristianity,  with  a  gorgeous  ceremonial  and  a 
Bomish  baptism ;  a  religion  framed  after  his  own  choice 
and  liking.    He  gave  them  not  only  the  name,  but  many 
of  the  doctrines  and  more  of  the  forms,  yet  with  boaroely 
the  pulsation  of  spiritual  life  or  power.    The  Papacy 
may  be  regarded  as  the  summation  of  crowning  crafti- 
ness—the   "  deceivableness    of    unxrighteousness  " — the 
arch  dsiusion ;  the  most  complete  counterfeit  of  pure  and 
undeHled  religion.    It  is  a  complete  usurpation  and  mo- 
nopoly of  aJ!  the  powers  and  prerogatives,  all  the  virtues, 
graces  and  rewards  of  Christianity;   it  is  a  claim  of 
universal  power,  temporal  and  spiritual— the  Pope  in  the 
place  of  God,  forgiving  sins,  and  exercising  all  power  in 
heaven  and  earth. 

All  that  now  seemed  wanting  in  order  to  consummate 
this  delusion  and  make  it  the  grand  climacteric  scheme 
by  which  to  oppose,  and,  if  possible,  destroy  all  evangel- 
ical Christianity,  was  the  sealing  of  the  Pope's  infallibility. 
This  would  simply  consummate  the  entire  scheme  and 
vindicate  its  consistency.  The  long-cherished  preten- 
sions of  the  Pope,  and  predictions  concerning  him,  would 
simply  be  realized.  "  He  opposeth  and  exalteth  himself 
above  all  that  is  called  God  or  that  is  worshipped."  And 
the  infallibility  dogma  once  confirmed,  and  he  "  sitteth 
as  God  in  the  temple  of  God,  showing  himself  that  he  is 
God."  This  done,  and  Satan  has  seated  himself  on  the 
pinnacle  of  the  temple.  He  can  do  no  more.  And  from 
this  point  of  pride  and  vaunting  and  defiant  sacrilege, 
we  expect  to  see  him  cast  down  and  cast  out  forever ' 


THE  EKPIM    or  PEAm  AND  BIOHlTOOSNEas.  77 

mi  on  the  nuns  of  the  most  cons-unmate  .piritual  des- 
shall  rear  h,s  ererlaslmg  empire  of  peace  and  ri^.te^r 

eve^\'t?,^!!'i'l'"^*'r'''"'''8  8<»I«'  »»  P"«oh  to 
every  nation  and  kindred  and  tongue  a.d  oeonlo    i. 

flymg  th«,«gh  the  midst  of  heaven,  ^ji.^,  "  Ca?  oJf 
«"d  give  glopr  to  him,  for  the  ho^  of  ,t  indglSt 
come ;  worship  him."    And  whnn  ♦!,,•■. ..  """ginant  u 

devoutly  to  be  wished"  shall  come,  when  truth  and 
nghteouaness  shaU  triumph,  then  shlll  fojow  anofter 
angel  sajing,   "Babylon  is  faUen,  is  faUen,  Lt  °tlt 

tne  wrath  of  her  fornication.  And  soon  John  sees 
anotter  angel  come  down  from  heaven,  hav4  tte  W 

idt  ?:ri^roni  Biir^'-^f,^  ^  ^»^ 

.  «ie  Bevil  -a  Satl^^rSd^SLf  eh'oZTd  ;r 
and  cast  hun  mto  the  bottomless  pit,  and  shrhim T 
and  set  a  seal  upon  him  that  he  should  dec^v"  Z' 
nabons  no  more  tiU  the  thousand  years  sho^  be  M- 
fflW^and  after  that  he  should  be  loosed  for  a  iSL 


IV. 

SATAN  IN  THE  EARLY  OHRISTUN 

CHUKCH. 


■Ml 


JHEISTIAJjiiT  A  NEW  REVELATION — ^THE  DEVIL  ALABMED — 
HE  ASSAILS  THE  STEONQHOLD"  OP  THE  CHURCH — FORE- 
WARNED BY  CHRIST — PERSECUTIONS  OF  THE  EARLY  CHURCH 
— ITS  MARTYRS— PERSECUTIONS  DURING  THE  REFORMATION 
— ATTEMPTS  TO  ANNIHILATE  THE  BIBLE — THE  CORRUPTION 
OP  THE  CLERGY — PRIESTLY  USURPATION — ROME  NEVER 
CHANGES. 

We  have  seen  with  what  demoniac  virulence  the  De- 
stroyer followed  up  the  Church  from  Adam  to  Moses 
and  from  Moses  to  Christ ;  how  he  never  lost  an  advan- 
tage to  thwart  its  progress,  and,  if  possible,  to  turn  back 
the  onroUing  tide  of  truth  and  righteousness  in  the  world. 
Yet  what  he  had  done  was  seeming  weakness  compared 
with  what  he  should  do.  The  Mosaic  dispensation, 
though  a  decided  advance  on  any  that  had  gone  before, 
was  but  the  shadow  of  what  now  began  to  be  revealed  in 
the  cradle  at  Bethlehem.  The  one  was  called  the  "  min- 
istration of  death,"  the  other,  the  "  ministration  of  the 
spirit."  "If  the  ministration  of  death  be  glorious — 
which  glory  should  pass  away— shall  not  the  ministration 
of  the  spirit  be  rather  glorious  ?"  So,  as  the  Apostle 
argues,  **  even  that  which  was  made  glorious  (the  former 


ALARM  AT  THE  ADVENT  OF  THE  SAVIOUR.      79 

dispensation)  had  no  glorj  in  this  respect,  bj  reason  of 

the  glory  that  excelleth."  ^    "uhou  oi 

Christianity  was  a  new  revelation^ihe  bursting  in  of 

Tnl^ri'^^T"'  t^°"«  ^^^  ^'^^'y  "»g^*-    Christ  came 
to  claim  his  «  own ;"  to  take  the  kingdom  to  himself.    A 

2n2^Y  ?  TT  '''^  ^'"^  ^8^"^^^«  ^d  resources 
should  henceforth  be  engaged  to  overthrow  the  empire 
of  Satan,  and  to  rear  on  its  ruins  the  kingdom  of  our 
Emanuel.  The  conqueror  had  come.  Out  of  his  mouth 
went  a  sharp  two-edged  sword;  and  his  countenance 
was  as  the  sun  shineth  in  his  strength."  Or  he  is  por- 
trayed as  "a  Bridegroom  coming  out  of  his  chamber 
and  rejoiceth  as  a  strong  man  to  run  a  race  " 

The  Devil  was  alarmed.  His  empire  on  the  earth  had 
never  been  so  seriously  imperilled  before.  God  had 
come  m  the/6.A.  And  he  had  come  expressly  to  destroy 
the  works  of  the  Devil;  and  to  take  away  the  arm"  1 
which  he  trusted ;  and  to  bind  him  in  chains  of  dark- 
ness, and  to  cast  him  out  forever.  It  meant  war  to  the 
knife,-  and  a  desperate-a  terrible  resistance  must  be 

^nZt  u  !  '^^^  "°*  ^^"^^^  *^«  Saviour's  advent 
into  the  wor^d  he  would  do  what  he  could  to  resist  his 
progress  and  baffle  his  purposes.  Hence  he  met  him  in 
his  cradle,  and  at  once  devised  a  scheme  by  which  to  cut 
him  off  in  his  early  infancy.  A  decree  went  out  from 
the  Devil  shege-lord  to  murder  aU  the  infants  in  Beth- 
lehem,  hoping  thereby  to  kill  Jesus.    The  device  failed  • 

m.ght  be  hoped  he  would  faU  a  victim  to  a  people  who 
to  ^eaken,  If  not  to  desteoy,  the  chosen  people,  had 
murdered  aU  their  infants.  But  seeing  he  could  n;t  de- 
Btxoy  him,  his  next  device  was  to  divest  him  if  possible 
of  his  Divine  power  and  glory.  For  this  purpose  he 
met  him  m  the  wilderness,  and,  by  three  audacious  as- 
saults,  tempted  him  to  deny  his  God,  and  compromise 


I 


80 


THE  FOOT-PBINTS  OF  SATAN. 


his  own  divinity.  And  thence  onward,  through  the 
whole  earthly  career  of  our  blessed  Lord,  he  never 
allowed  an  advantage  to  resist  him,  and  to  turn  away  the 
people  from  hearing  him,  and  to  stir  them  up  to  persecute 
him — never  allowed  an  advantage  to  assail  the  Holy 
One  to  pass  unimproved,  till  the  time  of  the  great  Offering ' 
drew  near,  when  he  instigated  Judas  to  betray  him, 
Peter  to  deny  him,  all  the  disciples  to  forsake  him,  the 
soldiers  to  buffet  him,  and  Pilate  to  crucify  him. 

Foiled  in  all  these  vile  machinations  against  the  hated 
cause,  he  wf.3  constrained  for  a  time  to  desist.  The  cru- 
cified One  had  burst  the  bands  of  death,  risen  from  the 
tomb,  and  triumphantly  ascended  to  heaven.  He  was 
God ;  vindicated  in  the  sight  of  angels  and  of  men.  The 
Cross  had  triumphed.  That  which  it  was  supposed 
would  cover  the  newly  risen  Keligion  with  infamy  and 
viisgust  was  Ukely  to  become  the  glorious  centre  of  the 
Christian  Faith.  The  crucified  One  would  be  "  beUeved 
on  in  the  world."  Indeed,  this  characteristic  of  Chris- 
tianity and  evidence  of  its  Divinity  was  singularly  illus- 
trated in  its  early  history.  No  other  religion  ever  so 
readily  commended  itseK  to  all  conditions  and  nation- 
ahties  of  men.  No  other  religion  ever  contained  such 
elements  of  universahty.  No  other  ever  evidenced  itself 
as  a  religion  for  man.  Every  form  of  religion  that  had 
preceded  it  was  local — belonged  to  some  one  people  or 
nation.  Judaism  was  a  religion  only  for  the  Jews.  The 
different  forms  of  the  Oriental  rehgions  were  suited  only 
to  the  several  tribes  or  nations  for  which  they  were  con- 
structed ;  and  especially  were  suited  only  to  times, 
the  state  of  inteUigence  and  learning,  and  y«3t  more  to 
the  prevailing  caste  of  civilization.  Christianity,  on  the 
other  hand,  announced  and  verified  itself  from  the  be- 
ginning as  a  religion  for  the  world — adapted  to  the  wants 
of  man,  irrespective  of  race,  nation  color,  or  condition. 


CHRISTIANITY  A  RELIGION  FOR  MAN. 


81 


And  such  did  it  evince  itself  to  be,  not  only  by  the  com- 
mand that  it  should  be  preached  to  all  nations,  and  the 
fact  that  the  early  Christians  understood  this  to  be  an 
essential  characteristic  of  the  new  religion,  but  yet  more 
from  the  fact  of  its  adaptedness  to  all  peoples  and  the 
wonderful  success  that  attended  the  early  missionary 
labors  of  the  Christian  Church. 

He  Assails  the  Stronghold  of  the  Church.— W a  have  the 
testimony  of  Justin  Martyr  that,  within  a  century  after 
he  death  of  its  divine  Author,  the  new  reUgion  had  be- 
come known  and  measurably  accepted  in  every  part  of 
the  known  world.  He  says;  "There  exists  no  people, 
whether  Greek  or  barbarian,  or  any  other  race  of  men, 
by  whatever  appellation  or  manners"  they  may  be  distin- 
guished, however  ignorant  of  arts  or  agriculture  ;  whether 
they  dwell  in  tents,  or  wander  about  m  covered  wagons, 
among  whom  prayers  are  not  offered  up  in  the  name  of 
the  crucified  Jesus  to  iae,  Father  and  Creator  of  all 
things."  Indeed,  in  much  less  than  a  century  after 
Christ  was  risen,  St.  Paul  says:  "The  gospel  was 
preached  to  every  creature  which  is  under  heaven ;" 
"which  is  come  unto  you  as  it  is  in  all  the  world." 
"Their  sound  went  into  all  the  world,  and  their  words 
unto  the  ends  of  the  earth." 

Here  was  a  power  such  as  the  world  had  not  before 
known— an  agency  at  work  that  stirred  up  the  powers  of 
darkness  to  the  lowest  hell.  Something  must  be  done.  A 
council  is  convened—an  ecumenical  council  of  "  angels, 
and  principahties,  and  powers,  and  the  rulers  of  the 
darkness  of  this  world,  and  of  spiritual  wickedness  in 
high  places."  They  assemble.  Ail  are  filled  with  dis- 
may. New  modes  of  defence  must  be  devised;  new 
modes  of  attack  adopted.  Some  counsel  an  assault 
more  bold  ar.d  daring  than  ever  before.  Others,  and 
more  successfully,  counsel  craft  and  lying  hypocrisies  aa 


f  -< 


t  I 


UM 


62 


THE  FOOT-PBINTS  OF  SATAN. 


the  weapons  of  the  new  warfare.    What  assailants  may 
fail  to  do,  sappers  and  miners  may  accomplish.    The 
grand  council  are  at  their  wits'  end.    Never  was  even 
Satanic  wisdom  more  utterly  confounded.     Their  right- 
ful Sovereign  and  Ahnighty  Foe  had  completely  flanked 
them.  A  new  strategy  must  be  pursued,  a  more  vigorous 
and  relentless  warfare  must  be  prosecuted.    They  resolve 
and  re-resolve.    Lucifer,  the  arch-fiend,  and  once  "  Son 
of  the  Morning,"  shall  lead  the  invading  host,  and  every 
subordinate  devil  shall  stand  in  his  lot  and  bear  his  own 
burden  and  do  his  own  duty  in  the  approaching  conflict. 
The  rising  and  advancing  kingdom  of  the  Man  of  Naza- 
reth must,  if  possible,  and  at  any  cost,  be  arrested.     Or, 
if  that  cannot  be,  (aa  he  more  than  suspects,)  the  sacra- 
mental host  must  be  demorahzed,  the  esprit  de  corps 
vitiated,  and  the  "Strong  Man"  disarmed   by  taking 
away  the  armor  wherein  his  great  strength  lieth.     The 
power  of  the  true  Church,  which  is  to  take  possession  of 
the  earth,  is  holiness— the  pure,  simple,  unafi-ected,  God- 
Uke  piety  of  the  heart.     This  alone  identifies  the  Church 
with  heaven,  and  engages  Heaven's  power  in  its  behalf 
When  our  blessed  Lord  gave  to  a  few  feeble,  and  (as  the* 
world  regards  them)  uninfluential  disciples  the  broad 
command  to  go  and  evangelize  all  nations,  he  did  it  with 
the  assurance  that  he  who  sent  them  had  "  all  power  in 
heaven  and  in  earth ;"  and  with  an  assurance  equally  un- 
quahfied  that  they  should  receive  "  power  "—all-sufficient 
to  overcome  every  obstacle—"  after  that  the  Holy  Ghost 
had  come  upon  them."    A  Church  pure,  simple,  conse- 
crated, baptized,  and  vitahzed  by  the  Spirit ;  earnest  and 
Christ-Uke ;    strong  in  holiness,  which  is  the  power  of 
Chnst,  and  planted  on  the  everlasting  rock  of  Truth  • 
wiU  overcome  aU  things,  and  be  sure  to  subjugate  the* 
world  to  its  dominion.    "The  gates  of  heU"— all  the 
devUs  in  the  pit  combined-"  shaU  not  prevail  against 


THE  GREAT  BATTLE  BEGUN  :— STEPHEN  f.  JONED.   83 

it."    Tet  the  only  hope  of  succesafol  aggression  and 
final  conquest  lies  in  the  power  of  her  holiness. 

And  no  one  knew  better  than  the  Devil  where  the 
great  strength  of  the  Church  lay ;  and  hence  his  inexo- 
rable assaults  to  corrupt  her.  Satanic  craft  has  been 
especially  concentrated  to  divorce  the  Church  from  the 
power  of  holiness.  For  mighty  as  Christianity  is  when 
clothed  in  this  panoply  of  heaven,  when  vitalized  by  the 
pure,  simple,  all-controlling  spirit  of  its  divine  author, 
yet  when  shorn  of  these  locks  of  its  strength,  it  be- 
comes "  weak,"  like  any  human  institution. 

As  we  might  suppose,  the  first  and  most  desperate  on- 
slaught was  made  on  the  early  promulgators  of  the  gos- 
pel—the first  invading  host  of  Zion's  King.    As  prompt- 
ed   by    the    great    Apollyon,  Scribes    and    Pharisees, 
priests  and  rulers,  are  all  confederated  to  do  the  bid- 
ding of  their  Father  who  is— not  in  heaven.      They 
first  tried  their  hand— or  rather  gratified  their  diabolical 
malice,  by  persecution.    Stephen  was  a  bright  and  shin- 
ing light;  bold,  eloquent,  persuasive ;  a  good  man,  full 
of  the  Holy  Ghost  and  of  power.      He  did  great  won- 
ders and  miracles  among  the  people,  and  spake  with 
convincing  power.    And  the  people  could  not  resist  the 
wisdom  and  spirit  by  which  he  spake.     Again,  some- 
thing must  be  done.    "  U  we  let  him  alone/'  reasoned 
they,  "  all  men  will  believe  on  him."     So  "  they  stopped 
their  ears  and  ran  upon  him  with  one  accord,  and  cast 
him  out  of  the  city  and  stoned  him."    Was  not  the 
"hand  of  (a  worse  than)  Joab  in  this?"    Herod,  obse- 
quious to  his  master,  stretched  forth   his  hand  to  vex 
certain  of  the  Church.     And  he  killed  James,  the  bro- 
ther of  John  with  the  sword.     And  another  Governor 
of  Judea  delivered  over  James,  the  brother  of  Jesus  to 
be  stoned. 

But  these  seeming  disasters  were  made  to  contribute 


f  "'I 


m 


84 


THE  FOOT-PRINTS  OP  SATAN. 


to  the  furtherance  of  the  cause  which  the  persecutors 
fain  would  have  destroyed.  The  death  of  Stephen,  es- 
pecially, did  more  to  defeat  their  wiles  than  his  whole 
life  had  done  before.  "For  as  he  looked  steadfastly 
into  heaven,  he  saw  the  glory  of  God,  and  Jesus  stand- 
ing on  the  right  hand  of  God."  The  heavens  opened  to 
welcome  him ;  and  Jesus,  standing  on  the  right  hand  of 
the  Majesty  on  high,  with  open  arms  received  him. 
This  was  a  testimony  more  damaging  to  the  Foe  than 
all  he  had  done  or  said  while  living.  Though  thus  baf- 
fled for  the  time,  the  Devil  is  none  the  less  fixed  in 
deadly  hate  to  the  Church ;  first,  by  instigating  violence 
against  her  in  the  form  of  persecution,  and  then  by  the 
yet  more  harmful  device  of  corrupting  her. 

The  death  of  Stephen  was  followed  by  a  severe  per- 
secution at  Jerusalem,  in  which  "two  thousand  Chris- 
tians,  with  Nicanor,   the  deacon,  were   martyred,  and 
many  others  obliged  to  leave  the  country."     The  apos- 
tate  Jews,  as  if' it  were  not  enough  that  the  blood  of  the 
crucified  One  rested  on  them  and  on  their  children,  pur- 
sued the  early  Christian  Church  with  a  virulence  and 
malignity    -rhich  might  put  to  the  blush  the  veriest  hea- 
then.    "  The  priests  and  rulers  of  that  abandoned  peo- 
ple not  only  loaded  with  iujuries  and  reproaches  the 
Apostles  of  Jesus  and  their  disciples,  but  condemned  as 
many  as  they  could  to  death,"  and  this  in  the  most  irre- 
gular and  barbarous  manner.      Among  no  other  people 
did  the  Christian  Church  encounter  more  bitter  or  un- 
relenting enemies.      They  let  slip  no  opportunity  of 
instigating  magistrates  against  the  Christians,  and  ex- 
asperating the  multitude  to  demand  their  destruction. 

Christ  had  forewarn^  his  Disciples  how  th  world, 
while  subject  to  the  dominion  of  the  vile  Usurper, 
would  receive  them.  "They  will  deliver  you  up  to 
couucilis  \  they  will  scourge  you  in  the  synagogues ;  you 


MARTYRDOil  OF  THE  DISOIPJiES.  $5 

Bhall  be  hated  of  all  men  for  my  sake ;  nay,  the  time 
Cometh  when  they  will  think  they  are  doing  God  service 
by  putting  you  to  death."  And  soon  were  these  predic- 
tions verified  in  appalling  reality  to  them  that  heard 
them ;  and  then  onward,  through  a  dark  cloud  of  perse- 
cutions for  centuries  to  come. 

James,  the  son  of  Zebedee  was  beheaded.     Philip 
was  scourged  and  cr..ified.     Matthew  was  slain  in 
^ithiopia  by  a  halberd.    Mark  was  tied  by  the  feet 
dragged  through  the  streets,  left  bruised  in  a  dungeon 
all  night,  and  the  next  day  burned.     The  Jews,  greatly 
enraged  that  Paul  had  escaped  their  fury,  by  appealing 
to  CflBsar,  wreaked  their  vengeance  on  James,  the  bro- 
ther of  Jesus,  now  ninety-four  years  old.     They  threw 
him  do-/n,   beat,  bruised  and  stoned  him;  and  then 
dashed  out  his  brains  with  a  club.     Matthias  was  mar- 
tyred  at  Jerusalem;  first  stoned,  and  then  beheaded 
Andrew  was  fastened  to  the  cross,  not  with  nails  but 
cords,  that  his  death  might  be  more  slow  and  excruciat- 
ing.     Ho  hved  two  days,  the  greater  part  of  the  time 
preaching  to  the  people.     Peter,  after  a  nine  months' 
imprisonment  and  a  severe  scourging,  was  crucified  with 
his  head  downwards.     Paul,  after  having  suflfered  im- 
prisonments, stripes,  stonings,  perils  and  privations  of 
every  name,  was  martyred  by  being  beheaded,  by  order 
of  the  monster  Nero,  at  Rome.     Jude  was  crucified, 
and  Bartholomew  was  beaten,  crucified  and  decapitat- 
ed.    Thomas  was  martyred  in  India,  by  being  thrust 
through  with  a  spear.     Luke  was  hanged;  Simon  was 
oru  ified,   and  John,  the  beloved  disciple,  after  being 
mxraculously  delivered  from  a  cauldron  of  boiling  oil, 
by  which  he  was  condemned  to  die,  was  banished  to  the 
Isle  of  Patmos,  to  work  in  the  mines. 

3fet  this  is  little  more  than  the  beginning  of  that  Sa- 
tanic rage  which  burst  upon  the  Church.     The  storm 


86 


THE  FOOT-PBINTS  OF  SATAN. 


was  gathering.  The  powers /)f  the  Pit  were  unloosed. 
What  the  perfidious  Jews  so  disgracefully  begun,  the 
Komans  finished.  The  Devil  was  as  never  before,  mad 
upon  the  destruction  of  the  sacramental  host.  A  Nero 
had  ascended  the  throne :  a  monster  of  wickedness  and 
cruelty,  a  "perfidious  tyrant,"  a  fit  tool  of  his  Master 
beneath.  The  barbarous  persecution  that  marked  and 
disgraced  his  reign  was  the  first  of  the  Ten  notable 
persecutions  that  afflicted  the  Church  during  the  first 
three  centuries.  These  were  deadly,  inveterate,  calami- 
tous enough  to  annihilate  anything  but  the  Church  of 
the  living  God. 

*•  On  the  Eock  of  Ages  founded, 
What  can  shake  thy  sure  repose  ? 
With  Salvation's  walls  surrounded, 
Thou  may  est  smile  at  all  thy  foes." 

Yet  the  assault  was  made ;  and  by  ten  bloody,  ruthless 
persecutions,  not  a  device  was  left  untried ;  not  an  agency 
unemployed  that  might  exterminate,  root  and  branch, 
this  vine  of  the  Lord's  planting.  But  hke  the  oak  sha- 
ken by  the  wind  and  made  to  reel  to  and  fro  by  the  tor- 
nado, this  vine  only  struck  its  roots  deeper  and  sent  out 
its  branches  further  and  stronger,  and  bore  yet  more 
luscious  and  abundant  fruit.  The  blood  of  the  martyrs 
was  the  seed  of  the  Church. 

We  can  do  no  more  than  to  snatch  a  few  brands  from 
this  seething  furnace  of  Tophet;  and  if  they  are  not  con- 
ceded to  be  Devil,  then  we  know  not  what  is. 

Nero  ordered  the  city  of  Bome  to  be  set  on  fire- 
played  on  his  harp  m  demoniac  joy  over  the  dreadful 
conflagration— then  charged  the  outrage  ou  the  Chris- 
tians, that  he  might  renew  on  them  his  barbarities.  He 
aow  refined  on  his  former  cruelties,  and  contrived  all 
aianner  of  punishments.    Some  were  sewed  up  in  tha 


iii  if. 


THE  naST  0»  THE  TEN  PERSECDTIONS.  87 

Ains  ol  wfld  beasts  and  then  worried  by  dogs  tiU  they 
died.  Others  were  dressed  in  shirts  made  stiff  with  wax 
taed  on  adetrees  and  set  on  fire  in  his  gardens.  In  this 
persecntion,  (the  first  in  order.)  which  extended  o™-  the 
who  e  Soman  Empire,  Paul  and  Peter,  Erastus  and  Aris- 
tarohus,  and  a  ong  list  of  worthies,  suffered  martyrdom. 
Under  Domitian  the  record  is  not  less  disgustmg-  "  im- 

rT:°''  T^"^'  ''■"■'"«■  '''°"'»8'  b^ning.Vcourg. 
Jng,  stoning    hanging  and  worrying.    Many  were  torn 

piecemeal  with  red  hot  pincers,  and  others  were  thrown 
upon  the  horns  of  wild  buUs.  After  having  suffered 
these  cnie  ties  their  friends  were  refused  the  privUege  o{ 
burning  their  remains."*  Timothy,  the  special  fSend 
and  fellow  laborer  of  Paul,  and  bishop  of  Ephesus  was 
among  the  victims.  For  .,3pi-ovhig  an  idolatrous  ^^o! 
cession,  he  was  set  upon  with  clubs,  and  beat  in  s ,  cruel 
a  manner  that  he  died  of  his  wounds  two  days  after 
Pwrt-  '"8«™'y  oontmuaUy  invented  ne*  devices. 
Phocas.  bishop  of  Pontus,  refu.mg  to  sacrifice  to  W 
toe,  wa.,  by  order  of  Trajan,  cast  first  into  a  hot  lime- 
tih^,  and  being  drawn  from  thence,  wa..  thrown  into  a 
scaldmg  bath  tiU  he  expired.  Ignatius,  bishop  of  Anti- 
och,  was  cast  into  prison,  crueUy  tormented,  dreadfully 
scourged,  compelled  to  hold  fire  in  his  haiuls  and  at  tte 
same  tune  papers  dipped  in  oU  were  put  o  his  sides 
and  set  on  fire.    His  flesh  was  torn  withered-hot  pinct^' 

wdd  beasts    Symphorosa,  a  widow,  and  her  seven  sons, 
retusmg  to  sacrifice  to  the  heathen  deities,  were  igno  ' " 
mimousy  murdered.    The  mother  was  scourged;  hZ 

fastened  to  her  neck,  and  she  thrown  into  the  riveT 
Other  martyrs  were  obliged  to  pass,  with  their  already 

•  Fox's  Book  of  Martyrs. 


k 


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F00T-PBINT8  OP    SATAN. 


wounded  feet,  over  thorns,  naUs,  and  sharp  sheUs. 
Others  were  scourged  till  their  sinews  and  veins  lay  bare ; 
and  after  suflfering  the  most  excruciating  tortures,  they 
died  by  terrible  deaths."* 

But  why  recount  these  atrocities,  which  put  to  shame 
all  human  decency.  They  bespeak  their  origin.  They 
are  redolent  with  the  fumes  of  the  Pit.  Yet  we  turn 
from  them  only  to  encounter  forms  of  persecution  and 
outrage  yet  more  deviliah. 

The  civil  or  outside  persecutions  to  which  we  have  re- 
feiTed,  were  the  work  of  the  heathen,  or  at  best,  of  a 
great  idolatrous  power.    WhUe  the  Church  remained 
uncorrupted  the  Devil  was  satisfied  to  use  heathen  ma- 
gistrates for  her  annoyance,  and,  he  hoped,  her  destruc- 
tion.   But  no  sooner  had  he  made  her  swerve  from  her 
original  purity  and  zeal,  than,  clothing  his  own  servants 
in  sacerdotal  robes,  he  subsidized  the  power  of  an  all 
powerful  hierarchy  in  his  service.    It  was  persecution  in 
the  Church  that  would  the   most  effectuaUy  serve  the 
Enemy  and  trouble  the  faithful.    As  the  Church  became 
corrupt,  as  the  Enemy  secured  its  demoralization,  and 
the  great  apostasy  arose,  the  demon  of  persecution  was 
let  loose  with  a  hellish  malignity  before  unknown.     The 
Inquisition,  the  stake  and  the  rack,  were  the  infernal  im- 
plements of  torture  and  death,  now  applied,  not  by  Pagan 
rulers,  but  by  the  professed  ministers.of  Christianity  and 
servants  of  the  Church.     The  professed  Christian  Church 
and  not  an  ungodly  world,  were  the  guilty  perpetrators 
of  the  atrocious  deeds  the  faithful  historian  has  recorded 


We  might  add  any  amount  of  the  like  atrocities,  described  in  terms 
Lke these :  "Bed-hotplates  of  brass  placed  upon  the  tenderest  p^ts 
of  the  body ;"  "  sit  m  red-hot  chairs  tiU  the  flesh  broiled  ;"  "  sewed  up 
m  nets  and  thrown  upon  the  horns  of  wild  bulls  ;"  "batten-put  to  the 

rack-flesh  torn  with  iron  hooks stripped,  whipped,  and  put  intel 

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The  great  persocufcing  power  is  now  to  make  a  stride 
onward.  The  clergy  must  first  be  corrupted,  and  then 
exalted  to  power.  The  Christian  Chu/oh  must  have  its 
High  Priest,  and  he  must  be  supreme  and  infallible, 
Bitting  in  the  temple  of  God,  showing  himself  that  he  is 
God.  This  being  done,  and  new  power,  and  place,  and 
malignity  were  given  to  the  Devil's  choice  work,  the  per- 
secution of  the  saints. 

This  he  in  a  measure  achieved,  as  we  have  seen,  during 
the  first  three  centuries.  Now  Constantino  appears ;  the 
good,  but  the  not  altogether  wise  friend,  patron  and  de- 
fender of  the  persecuted  Church.  With  the  hope  of  pro- 
tecting Christianity  from  the  peraecuting  power,  and  ex- 
alting her  in  the  sight  of  the  nations,  he  united  Church 
and  State,  and  largely  extended  to  the  clergy  the  offices 
and  emoluments  of  the  government,  and  thus  unwittingly 
contributed  greatly  to  the  secularizing  of  the  cleri^'y,  and  to 
the  estabUshment  of  the  temporal  power.  A  corrupt  cler- 
gy,  made  more  corrupt  by  the  temptation  of  power  and 
rich  benefices,  soon  grew  into  a  hierarchy,  with  an  infal- 
lible  Head,  claiming  power  over  kings,  and  supreme  au- 
thority in  the  Church. 

AH  was  now  prepared  for  a  new  onslaught.  Pride, 
ambition,  fashion,  custom,  wealth,  power,  were  all  on  the 
side  of  the  hierarchy.  The  light  of  the  Sun  of  Right- 
eousness grew  dim.  A  night  of  a  thousand  years  fol- 
lowed. It  was  the  Devil's  millennium.  The  powers  of 
darkness  reigned.  The  history  of  those  ages  is  written 
in  blood,  and  sealed  with  groans  and  tears.  Persecutions 
and  tortures  the  most  exquisite,  were  christened  as 
Church  duties  and  superintended  by  her  high  dignitaries. 
The  Inquisition,  the  rack  and  the  stake,  accompanied 
with  horrors  that  make  devils  quake,  were  Rome's  means 
of  grace  to  convert  the  unbeUevers.  Never  did  the  imps 
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THE  POOT-PBINTS  OF  SATAN. 


the  Ohnshan  Church !  Would  any  one  now  doubt  of 
what  spint  she  was,  or  to  what  world  she  belonged? 
The  Enemy  seemed  to  have  gotten  the  victory.  The  re- 
ligion of  Calvary,  the  realization  of  a  long  series  of 
prophecies,  and  the  consummation  of  all  former  dispensa- 
tions, made  it  deadi  and  torture  refined  to  read  God's  word, 
or  to  worship  God  according  to  one's  own  conscience. 

From  the  very  outset  an  important  object  to  be  gained 
by  the  Adversary  was  to  take  the  Bible  out  of  the  hands 
of  the  laity,  to  imprison  it,  if  possible,  in  a  dead  lan- 
guage, and  to  allow  the  common  clergy  only  such  an  in- 
terpretation of  it  as  should  subserve  the  interests  of  the 
hierarchy.  Then  the  traditions  and  commandments  of 
men  would  take  the  place  of  the  word  of  God ;  and  the 
enUghtening,  guiding,  sanctifying  power  of  the  Truth 
bemg  compromised,  reKgion  would  become,  at  best  but 
a  form.  The  light  of  Truth  being  once  put  under  a 
bushel,  we  need  not  wonder  at  the  degeneracy  which 
followed,  both  among  the  clergy  and  the  laity— though 
that  of  the  clergy  seems  to  have  been  the  most  revolting 
and  profound. 

The  faith,  devotion  and  bloody  sacrifice  of  the  martyrs 
witnessed  to  the  world  a  good  confession,  such  as  had 
never  been  witnessed  before.  The  true  reUgion  had  in 
no  former  age  given  so  indubitable  a  testimony  to  its 
divme  origin.  The  enduring  and  unswerving  fidelity  of 
the  martyrs  evidences  that  there  was  something  in  their 
religion  that  is  heaven-high  above  every  other  religion. 

Satan  saw  this  and  changed  his  base.  No  violence,  no 
persecution,  not  even  "  the  gates  of  heU"  could  prevaU 
against  the  Lord's  Anointed.  Hence  he  adopted  a  new 
mode  of  warfare.  He  changed  his  tactics.  What  he 
could  not  do  by  daring  and  violence,  he  would  essay  to 
do  by  craft  and  cunning.  If  he  could  not  exterminate 
the  Church— if  she  must  be  a  power  in  the  world,  he  will 


OHUBOH  DEMORALIZED  AND  MADE  A  DESPOTISM.        91 


make  her  a  power  to  his  own  liking ;  a  power  to  subserve 
his-own  purposes.  He  would  divest  her  of  her  spiritual 
life  ;  he  would  build  her  up  as  a  great  spiritual  despot- 
ism, for  the  oppression,  and  to  seoure  the  ignorance  of 
the  people,  and  to  cater  to  the  ambition  and  avarice  of 
the  priesthood. 

Two  points  were  now  to  be  gained :  the  one  to  demor- 
alize the  Church — to  emasculate  her  of  truth  and  the 
spiritual  power  that  comes  through  the  truth ;  and  the 
other,  to  mako  her  a  great  despotism ;  in  either  case  to 
despoil  her  of  spiritual  power,  to  use  her  as  a  medium 
through  which  to  subserve  their  own  ambitious  purposes. 
The  form  of  religion  was  retained  while  the  power  and 
vitaUty  were  gone.  "  Men  suffered  the  precious  perfume 
of  faith  to  escape  while  they  bowed  themselves  before 
the  empty  vase  that  held  it."  A  siiAple  faith  was  no 
longer  the  uniting  tie.  Bites,  ceremonies,  canons,  miters, 
bishops,  popes,  became  the  cementing  bonds  of  the  body 
now  falsely  called  after  the  name  of  Christ.  The  "  living 
Church  retired  by  degrees  into  the  lonely  sanctuary  of  a 
few  solitary  souls;  an  exterior  Church  was  substituted 
in  its  place,  and  installed  in  all  its  forms  as  of  divine  in- 
stitution." 

But  we  shall  not  attempt  to  follow  the  bloody  foot-  | 
steps  of  the  Foe  through  these  dark  ages.  For  darker 
and  more  bloody  did  they  become,  till  scarcely  a  vestige 
was  left  of  the  pure  and  simple  reUgion  of  the  Cross.  In 
the  place  of  Christ,  the  rightful  High  Priest  and  King  in 
Zion,  was  installed  the  Pope ;  and  the  offices  of  Christ's 
ministers,  w^hom  he  had  appointed  to  be  teachers  of  the 
ignorant  and  comforters  of  the  poor,  the  oppressed  and 
afflicted,  were  monopolized  and  abused  by  men  who  made 
merchandise  of  God's  house— became  the  venders  of  in- 
dulgences— sat  in  the  place  of  Christ  to  hear  confessions 
and  to  pronounce  pardon  for  sin. 


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THE  FOOT-PBINTa  OP  SATAN. 


To  complete  the  work  the  more  effectually,  the  Bible, 
as  we  have  said,  was  made  a  sealed  book.     This  light  of 
heaven  was  torn  from  its  orbit,  and  the  Church  left  in 
darkness.     There  was  still  power  and  ambition,  avarice 
and  persecution.     There  were  tortures  too,  nameless 
and  shameless,  such  as  might  put  the  foulest  fiends  to 
the  blush,  but  piety  was  gone.     The  followers  of  the 
meek  and  lowly  Jesus  had  disappeared  in  the  dark 
cloud  that  now  covered  the  earth.     Satan  held  jubilee. 
But  in  this  darkest  hour,  the  few  waiting,  hoping,  half- 
despairing  saints,  hailed  the  first  glimmering  of  the  ris- 
ing light,     A  few,  of  whom  the  world  was  not  worthy, 
the  persecuted,    the  down -trodden,  the  outcast,  now 
looked  out  from  the  clefts  of  the  rocks  in  the  valleys  of 
the  Alps.     These  were  nearly  the  whole  that  remained 
of  the  Uving  Church.     They  had  not  defiled  their  gar- 
ments.    They  had  not  received  the  mark  of  the  Beast. 
And  the  simple  reason  why  they  had  not  perished  in  the 
general  slaughter  of  the  saints,  was  that  aU  the  powers 
of  earth  and  hell  could  by  no  means  destroy  the  last 
remnant  of  the  Lord's  anointed. 

Satan  had  gone  the  length  of  his  tether.    « Hither- 
to," said  the  divine  fiat,  "shalt  thou  come,  and  no  fur- 
ther."    God  the  Avenger  had  arisen,  and  would  vindi- 
cate his  cause  upon  the  earth.     The  early  lights  of  the 
Reformation,  one  after  another,  appeared.      The  great 
light,  the  monk  of  Wittemberg,  soon  followed.     God 
said,  "  Let  there  be  light,"  and  there  was  light.    It  was 
light  risen  on  the  thickest  moral  darkness  that  ever 
covered  the  earth.     No  form  of  paganism  had  ever  so 
completely  personified  the  despotism  and  corruption  of 
the  Man  of  Sin.     The  prince  and  power  of  the  air 
seemed  to  have  gained  the  victory  over  the  whole  earth. 
No  form  of  resistance  to  the  rising  light  was  spared ;  no 
mode  of  warfare  left  untried.     Yet  this  "strong  man 


PAPAL  WARS — ^RISE  OP  THE  JESUITS. 


98 


armed "  was  again  met  by  a  "  stronger  than  he,"  and 
the  glorious  Reformation  followed. 

Though  a  victory  was  gained,  yet  the  conflict  was 
continued.  Again  new  modes  of  warfare  were  adopted, 
and  new  tactics  employed  to  meet  the  changed  aspect 
of  the  fight.  The  political  power  of  Europe  must,  if 
possible,  be  secured.  Hence  the  aid  of  Mars  is 
invoked.  Dreadful  wars  followed.  During  all  these 
eventful  years  of  commotion  and  devastation,  scarcely  a 
war,  civil  or  foreign,  raged  in  Europe  which  did  not  owe 
its  origin  to  the  artifices  of  popes,  monks  or  friars.  No 
devices  were  spared  to  enlist  kings  and  queens,  princes 
and  dukes  on  the  side  of  the  f  /  oat  Moloch  of  the  times. 
But  the  most  crafty,  successful  and  devilish  of  all  the 
devices  of  Satan,  was  tjie  organization  of  the  Jesuits. 
For  cunning  craftiness,  for  untiring  devotion  to  their  ob- 
jects, for  the  inost  unscrupulous  prosecution  of  these 
objects,  irrespective  of  the  character  of  means  and 
agencies  employed,  ApoUyon  never  had  servants  more 
loyal.  They  would  assume  any  character,  feign  any 
opinion,  do  any  work,  which  should  subserve  the  in- 
terests of  their  lord  and  master.  They  are  preachers, 
teachers,  politicians,  anything  and  everything,  that  can 
insinuate  themselves  into  the  good  graces  of  those  they 
would  bring  into  alliance  with  the  great  delusion. 

We  defy  the  world  to  produce  a  more  complete  perso- 
nification of  Satanic  craft,  and  unremitting,  self-deny- 
ing, unscrupulous  activity  in  consummating  their  deadly 
purposes,  than  is  met  in  this  same  order.  And  we  have 
here  the  very  animus  of  the  Romish  Hierarchy.  Ro- 
manism, in  its  essential  spirit  and  working,  is  Jesuitism. 
Popes,  cardinals  and  all  high  Church  dignitaries,  if  not 
the  pliant  tools  of  the  followers  of  Loyola,  accept  the 
Jesuits  as  then:  most  loyal  servants,  their  most  relia- 
ble and  effective  agents,  and  true  representatives,  and 


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allow  their  cunning  devices  to  give  character  to,  and  to 
control  the  papal  throne. 

That  we  may  be  able  to  estimate  the  true  character 
and  the  inevitable  tendency  of  Jesuitism,  we  need  only 
revert  to  four  of  the  leading  characteristics  of  the  Je- 
suitical system,  viz.,  its  hostility  to  free  government,  to 
common  education,  to  the  use  of  the  Bible  by  the  peo- 
ple, and  to  free  thought  and  private  judgment. 

'  These  being  the  four  essential  elements  of  a  free  gov 
emment  and  a  free  Christianity,  we  may  rely  upon  it 
that  Jesuitism,  which  is  the  controlling  power  in  the 
Bomish  Church  in  America,  can  work  nothing  but  evil  to 
our  prosperity.  As  Borne  never  changes,  and  every 
member  of  the  Bomish  Church  is  solemnly  bound  in  al- 
legiance to  a  foreign  spiritual  despotism,  whether  or  not 
he  can  be  loyal  to  his  adopted  country,  we  wan.t  no  pro- 
phetic spirit  to  tell  us  that  the  supremacy  of  Bomanism 
(that  is  of  Jesuitism)  would  be  certain  death  to  all  free- 
dom in  Church  or  State. 

Did  our  theme  need  further  illustration,  facts  all  along 
the  whole  line  of  history  would  come  to  our  aid.  We 
are  safe  in  affirming  that  Bome  never  yields  one  of  her 
characteristics  as  an  organization,  except  from  the 
sheerest  necessity.  Wherever  she  has  power,  she  is  the 
same  persecuting  body  that  she  ever  was.  Or  give  her 
power  where  she  has  it  not,  and  her  whole  history  war- 
rants the  assertion  that  the  virus  of  the  serpent  would 
be  as  bitter,  as  intolerant,  as  deadly  as  it  was  in  the 
days  of  Hildebrand  or  Caesar  Borgia.  The  popes  were 
always  infallible ;  and  what  infallibility  did  in  one  age  of 
the  world,  it  would,  if  allowed,  do  in  any  age. 

Such  considerations  indicate  but  too  plainly  what  we, 
as  a  people,  have  to  expect  from  the  rising  power  of  the 
Papacy.  And  we  are  hereby  able  to  form  a  just  judg- 
ment of  the  patriotism  of  those  who,  by  the  gift  of  mil- 


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lions  of  the  public  money  to  support  the  institutions  of 
the  worst  of  despotisms — ^worst,  because  a  religious,  per- 
secuting despotism.  Without  following  up  the  history 
of  Papal  Eome  after  the  Beformation,  we  might  point 
to  certain  isolated  ebullitions  of  virulence,  hate,  and  mur- 
der, which  burst  out  in  France,  in  the  form  of  the  shame- 
-  ful  massacre  on  St.  Bartholomew's  day ;  and,  irf  England, 
in  the  Gunpowder  Plot.  These  wore  neither  new  nor 
unusual  events,  but  the  natural  outbursts  of  a  spirit 
which  had  been  cherished,  by  men  clothed  in  sacerdotal 
robes,  for  a  long  series  of  years. 

Rome  never  Changes. — In  the  great  spiritual  despotism 
known  as  the  Sacerdotal  System,  the  spiritual  power  of 
the  priesthood  holds  its  subjects  in  such  abject  terror 
that  the  mind  is  paralyzed,  and  man  cannot  become  a 
self-reliant,  self-governing  creature,  but  must  remain  k 
child.  This  is  the  purpose  of  the  Bomish  Church.  It 
aims  to  control  the  intellect ;  and  putting  its  hand  upon 
the  school,  the  college,  and  the  press,  it  says :  "  These 
are  mine  I  You  must  learn,  think,  and  speak  as  I  decree." 
Nor  is  this  an  effete  doctrine  of  Borne,  a  dogma  of  the 
Dark  Ages.  It  is  reaflirmed  in  our  day — in  the  Papal 
Syllabus  of  1865 — the  salient  points  of  which  were  the 
denial  of  the  right  of  the  State  to  teach,  the  supremacy 
of  the  spiritual  over  the  temporal  power,  and  the  con- 
demnation of  freedom  of  conscience  as  a  fatal  error — an 
undeniable  proof  that  the  position  and  pretensions  of 
Bome  remain  unchanged. 


SATAN   IN   WAR. 


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/AR  THE  DARLING  WORK  OP  THE  DEVIL — 8TATISTI0S  OF 
THE  AMEKIOAN  REVOLUTION — INDIAN  WAR8  OF  THE  UNIT- 
ED STATES — WAR  STATISTICS  OP  CHRISTIAN  NATIONS — 
WHAT  THE  SAME  MONEY  WOULD  DO  IP  SPENT  POR  GOD- 
WAR  DEBTS  OF  DIFFERENT  NATIONS — SWORDS  VERSUS 
PLOWSHARES — STATISTICS  OF  WARS  IN  AMERICA — FOREIGN 
WARS — THE  SACRIFICES  OF  HUMAN  LIFE  IN  ANCIENT  AND 
MODERN  WARS. 

We  may  adduce,  as  a  notable  illustration  of  our 
theme,  the  horrible  work  of  human  butohery,  called 
War.  Yet  were  we  to  do  more  than  to  sketch  an  im- 
perfect outline  of  this  barbarous,  bloody,  body  and 
soul-killing  practice,  we  should  find  no  end.  The  ex- 
pense of  war — the  sacrifice  of  life — the  wickedness  of 
war — ^its  wastes,  cruelties,  miseries  and  demoralization, 
would  each  readily  expand  into  a  volume.  We  must, 
however,  dispose  of  the  whole  in  two  short  chapters. 

I.  The  Expense  of  War. — And  this,  when  regarded  as 
a  iajx  levied  by  the  Arch  Apostate  on  his  sin-belea- 
guered subjects  to  support  a  darling  project  for  the  ruin 
of  man  and  the  robbing  of  God,  and  peopling  the 
world  of  perdition,  is  surpassed  by  no  other  system  of 


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AMEBIOAN  WAB8  AND  WAB  DEBTS. 


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taxation  in  the  wide  empire  of  sin,  and  equalled  by 
none,  unless  it  be  the  deadly  reign  of  intemperance. 

The  following  statistics  are  given  not  as  the  sum  of 
the  expense  of  war,  but  as  items  in  the  account. 

The  Revolutionary  War  coat  America  $350,000,0 .0, 
and  cost  Great  Britain  $600,000,000;  and  her  wars 
with  Napoleon  cost  her  $500,000,000.  Our  war  with 
Great  Britain  in  1812  cost  us  annually  $50,000,000,  or 
a  total  of  $120,000,000.  Our  Florida  War  sent  in  its 
bill  for  $40,000,000,  and  our  Mexican  War  for  $300,- 
000,000.  A  single  ship-of-war  may  cost  the  nation 
$500,000  a  year,  or  from  $1,000  to  $1,500  per  day. 
Christian  nations  are  said  to  be  paying  not  less  than 
$1,000,000,000  a  year  for  standing  armies  in  time  of 
peace.  Of  this,  America  is  paying  $50,000,000.  And 
during  the  last  fifty  years  her  peace  establishment  has 
cost  her  not  less  than  $262,000,000,  or  nearly  $20,000,- 
000  a  year,  to  say  nothing  of  her  vast  militia  system, 
which,  if  time  be  computed,  would  amount  to  double 
the  above  amount. 

It  is  said  that  the  war-debts  of  Christian  nations  yet 
unpaid,  amount  at  this  day  to  $10,000,000,000.  This 
sum  embraces  merely  the  arrearage,  not  what  has  been 
paid,  for  carrying  on  war.  The  average  of  this  amount 
is  $63.25  a  head  to  the  whole  population  of  those  six- 
teen nations.  The  interest  of  this  vast  sum  nearly 
equals  a  tax  of  one  dollar  on  every  inhabitant  of  the 
globe. 

Since  the   B^ormation  Great  Britain  has  been  en- 
gaged   sixty-five    years  in  the  prosecution  of    sevea 
wars,  for  which  she  expended,  in  our  currency,  $8,98^ . 
120,000.     It  has  been  estimated  by  our  missionariea 
that  a  school  of  50  heathen  children  on  the  continent  o£ 
India  would  only  cost  $160  per  annum.  "  Then  this 

sum  expended  by  a  Christian  nation  in  sixty-five  years, 

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THE  FOOT-PRINTS  OF  SATAN. 


iu  carrying  on  war  with  other  Christian  nations,  if  ap- 
plied to  the  education  of  the  heathen,  woald  have 
schooled  46,062,154  children  per  annum  for  sixty-five 
years !  Allowing  five  years  to  each  scholar,  then  598,- 
803,000  children  might  have  been  educated  for  the  mo- 
ney that  Great  Britain  drained  from  the  sources  and 
channels  of  her  wealth  and  industry,  to  waste  in  wars, 
every  one  of  which  degraded  her  people  in  every  quali- 
ty of  their  condition. 

From  1793  to  1815 — a  period  of  twenty-two  years — 
Great  Britain,  France  and  Austria  expended  $7,330,- 
000,000  in  war.  The  interest  of  this ,  suui,  at  six  per 
cent.,  would  have  supported  30,000  missionaries  among 
the  heathen  during  the  whole  period  of  twenty-two 
years,  in  which  these  Christian  nations  were  engaged  in 
doing  the  Devil's  work  on  each  other.  The  aggregate 
amount  would  have  given  five  years'  schooling  to  488,- 
666,666  pagan  children,  on  the  Lancasteriau  plan  .  he 
interest  for  one  month,  at  the  above  rate,  would  build 
1,466  miles  of  railroad,  at  $25,000  per  mile. 

Consulting  the  best  authorities  ^I  can  command,  I 
find  that  the  aggregate  amount  of  the  expenditures  of 
our  own  Government,  from  1789  to  March  4,  1843,  is 
$1,111,375,734. 

Now,  patriotic  Americans,  will  you  not  read  this  re- 
flectingly  ?  Of  this  vast  sum  there  have  been  expended 
only  $148,620,056  for  civil  purposes,  embracing  the  Ci- 
vil List,  Foreign  Intercourse,  and  the  Miscellaneous 
expenses.  Then  it  follows  that  $962,755,680  have  been 
lavished  upon  preparations  for  war  in  time  of  peace, 
within  little  more  than  half  a  century  by  this  model  Be- 
public !  Another  fact :  From  January  1, 1839  to  March  3, 
1843,  the  war  expenses  of  this  Government  were  $153,954,- 
.881  \—five  miUicms  more  than  aU  the  civil  expenses  of  the  Go- 
vernment  from   1789   to   1843.     Another    fact :    From 


SIXTY-FIVE  TEABS  OP  WAB. 


^ 


1816  to  1834,  eighteen  years,  oar  national  expenses 
amounted  to  $463,915,756;  and  of  this  sum,  nearly 
$400,000,000  went  in  one  way  and  another  for  war,  and 
only  $64,000,000  for  all  other  objects,  being  twenty- 
two  millions  a  year  for  war,  and  about  three  millions 
and  a  half — ^less  than  one  sixth  of  the  whole — for  the 
peaceful  operations  of  a  Government  that  plumes  itself 
on  its  pacific  policy  1  If  we  take  into  account  all  the 
expenses  and  all  the  losses  of  war  to  this  country,  it 
will  be  found  to  have  wasted  for  us,  in  sixty  years,  some 
two  or  three  thousand  mUliona  of  dollars  I 

Great  Britain,  as  we  have  seen,  spent  for  wars,  dur- 
sixty-five  years,  about  $9,000,000,000,  and  during  the 
same  period  $30,000,000  for  education,  or  in  the  pro- 
portion of  three  thousand  to  one!  And  we  have  re- 
cently closed  a  war  that  has  cost  us,  as  we  shall  show, 
more  than  the  entire  aggregate  of  the  wars  of  those 
sixty-five  years. 

M.  Leroy  Beaulieu,  an  intelligent  French  statistician, 
gives  us  the  expense,  in  blood  and  treasure,  of  the  wars  in 
Europe  between  1853  and  1866,  which  he  says  might 
have  been  avoided  if  those  concerned  had  cared  to  avoid 
them.    The  following  are  taken  from  his  statistics  : 


KiOti. 

The  Crimean  War 785,000 

•     ItalianWar. 45,000 

••     DanishWar 3,000 

"   American  (North) 281,000 

"          "         (South) *...  519,000 

"    Aostro-Frossian  War. 45,000 

Various 65,000 

Total  for  U  years 1,743,000 


(ML 

$1,700,000,000 

300,000,000 

36,000,000 

4,700,000,000 

4,750,000,000 

350,000,000 

200,000,000 

$12,036,000,000 


Appalling  as  this  may  appear,  we  shall  stand  yet  more 
aghast  when  we  shall  come  to  read  the  statistics  of  the 


•  - ; 


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FOOT-PRINTS  OF  SATAN. 


reoent  war  in  Europe,  (Franco-Prussian,)  with  its  unpar- 
aleMed  record  of  death  and  devastation. 

Twelve  thousand  millions  in  fourteen  years!  What, 
asks  the  philanthropist,  the  reformer,  the  Ohristian,  might 
have  been  done  with  this  immense  treasure !  How  many 
hospitals,  universities,  railways,  agricultural  colleges,  and 
workingmen's  homes  migbt  it  have  built ! 

Our  Indian  wars  cost  the  country,  during  the  first  half 
of  the  present  century,  $400,000,000.  During  the  same 
period  we  have  paid  for  the  educatioii  of  these  poor 
aborigines,  $8,000,000 — one  fiftieth  of  the  war  aspense. 
One  dollar  to  bless ;  fifty  dollars  to  curse !  Yet  the 
bullet  has  probably  cost  less  than  the  bottle,  which  we 
have  inflicted  on  them  during  ^he  same  period.  But  how 
stands  the  record  during  the  last  tioenty  years  ?  Civiliza- 
tion has  advanced,  the  country  has  pro'^pered,  but  has 
our  policy  toward  the  poor  red  man  been  more  peaceful, 
more  humane?  Has  the  spelUng-book  and  the  Bible, 
and  the  oUve  branch  of  peace  ruled  our  policy,  and 
di  awn  them  near  and  incorporated  them  with  us,  as  was 
V,3Coming  a  gi-eat  Christian  nation ;  or  have  we  chased 
them  away  by  the  bullet  and  the  bayonet,  and  driven 
ihfam  to  the  last  verge  of  annihilation  ?  And  what  has 
it  cost  ?  In  a  speech  lately  made  in  the  Senate  by  Sen- 
ator Morrill,  it  was  stated  that  the  cost  of  our  military 
and  civil  service  among  the  Indians  in  a  single  year  was 
some  seventy-eight  milUons  of  dollars,  and  during  the 
iast  seven  years,  the  military  service  alone  has  cost  us 
twenty  millions  annually.  When  these  expenditures  are 
so  profitable  to  army  officers,  contractors  and  others,  is 
it  any  wonder  that  they  stir  up  strife  between  the  Indians 
and  the  frontier  settlers  that  they  may  reap  the  profits  of 
ft  state  of  war  ? 

These  are  but  a  few  items  gathered  chiefly  from  the 
records  of  two  nations.    Had  we  before  ns  the  whole 


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WHAT  MONEY  SPENT  IN  WAB  MiaHT  DO. 


101 


amount  war  consumeF  in  a  single  century,  it  would  be 
astounding.  If  only  pecuniary  sacrifices  be  taken  into 
the  account,  war  is  the  vortex  which  opens  his  rapacious 
maw  and  never  says  enough. 

We  are  in  danger  of  nou  adequately  estimating  the 
stupendous  aggregate  of  a  sum  when  that  sum  is  national 
treasure,  to  be  used  for  public  purposes.    Millions  then 
appear  only  as  hundreds,  or  at  most  as  thousands.    In 
order,  therefore,  to  realize  the  vast  amounts  swallowed  up 
in  war,  let  us  sea  what  the  same  amounts  would  do  ex- 
pended for  private,  philanthropic,  or  benevolent  purposes. 
"  Give  me,"  says  one,  "  the  money  that  has  been  spent 
in  war,  and  I  will  purchase  every  foot  of  land  on  the 
globe.    I  will  clothe  every  man,  woman  and  child  in  an 
attire  that  kings  and  queens  might  be  proud  of.    I  will 
build  a  school-house  on  every  hillside  and  in  every  valley 
over  the  whole  earth ;  I  will  supply  that  school  with  a 
competent  teacher.    I  will  brild  an  academy  in  every 
town  and  endow  it ;  a  college  in  every  State,  and  fill  it^ 
with  professors.    I  will  cover  every  hill  with  a  church 
consecrated  to  the  promulgation  of  the  gospel  of  peace, 
and  support  in  its  pulpit  an  able  preacher  of  righteous- 
ness ;  so  that  on  every  Sabbath  morning  the  chime  on 
one  hill  shall  answer  to  the  chime  on  another  around 
earth's  broad  circumference ;  and  the  voice  and  song  of 
praise  shall  ascend  as  one  universal  offering  to  heaven." 
This  is  not  romance,  but  literally  truth,  as*  a  little 
geography,  history  and  arithmetic  would  easily  illustrate. 
"War  wastes  more  by  untold  millions  than  ambition 
grasps  or  avarice  covets." 

A  tithe  of  the  expenditure  of  war  would  supply  every 
family  on  the  face  of  the  earth  with  the  Bible-  -with  a 
preached  gospel,  and  with  all  the  means  of  education. 
It  would  supply,  abundantly,  funds  to  perfect  every 
needed  internal  improvement,  and  to  carry  out  every 


102 


FOOT-PMNTS  OP  SATAN. 


scheme  of  benevolence  and  philanthropy  which  the  most 
expensive  charity  can  devise ;  while  the  other  nine  tenths 
would  improve  the  navigation  of  every  river  on  the  face 
of  the  whole  globe — drain  every  morass,,  irrigate  every 
desert,  fertilize  every  field,  clear  up  every  forest,  work 
mines,  construct  a  canal,  railway,  and  telegraph,  wherever 
the  extended  business  and  commerce  of  the  times,  or  the 
convenience  of  travel  or  pleasure  should  require.  And 
were  we  to  add  to  this  the  whole  immense  amounts  ex- 
pended in  the  wars  of  all  nations,  as  from  year  to  year 
they  occur,  we  should  have  a  sum  sufficient  to  convert 
our  entire  earth  into  one  beautiful  paradise.  Every 
waste  would  be  recovered ;  every  deformity  be  removed ; 
an  immense  amount  of  the  natural  evils  that  now 
afflict  the  earth,  and  the  dwellers  thereon,  would  be 
forever  annihilated;  and,  in  beauty,  fertility,  and 
salubrity,  this  poor,  sin-smitten  earth  would  again  be  an 
Eden. 

Or  we  may  look  from  yet  another  standpoint.  The 
public  or  national  debts  of  seven  Christian  nations  amount 
in  the  aggregate  to  $14,834,712,000,  viz.:  United  States, 
12,385,000,000;  England,  $4,003,794,000;  Austria,  $1,- 
316,103,000 ;  France,  $5,000,000,000 ;  Italy,  $1,071,818,- 
000;  Spain,  $819,887,000;  and  Prussia,  $245,766,000. 
Of  this  enormous  amount  not  less  than  "  the  almost  im- 
measurable sum  of  $8,000,000,000  represent  the  war 
bills  left  to  present  and  future  generations  to  pay,  by 
those  who  contracted  them."  The  paid  in  capital  of  all 
the  known  banks  of  the  world,  it  is  said,  amounted  in  a 
single  year  to  $781,554,865  ;  showing  the  war  debts  of 
only  seven  Christian  nations  exceed  ten  times  the  capital 
of  all  the  banks.  Or,  including  the  war  debt  of  Bussia, 
($1,000,000,000)  the  aggregate  stands  at  the  enormous 
figure  of  nine  thousand  miUions. 

These  war  debts  have  been  very  essentially  increased 


WAB  AND  PUBIJO  DEBT  OF  EUBOFE. 


103 


within  the  past  few  years.  The  late  terrible  war  with 
Russia  cost  the  powers  engaged  in  it  $1,000,000,000.  We 
have  set  down  the  national  debt  of  France  at  $5,000,000,- 
000.  Before  her  late  war  with  Germany  her  debt  was 
less  than  $3,0d0,000,000.  To  this  has  been  added  more 
than  a  thousand  miUion  for  war  expenses ;  and  another 
thousand  milUon  indemnity  to  Germany. 

The  following  paragraph,  recently  pubUshed,  confirms 
and  explains  the  above  statement : 

••Wo  are  now  in  possession  of  most  of  the  data  requisite  for  fixing 
the  amount  of  indebtedness  which  France  has  incurred,  owing  to  the 
events  of  the  last  nine  months.     M.  Thiers  estimates  the  war  expendi- 
ture at  six  hundred  millions  of  dollars,  the  deficit  in  the  revenue,  owing 
to  the  disturbance  of  trade  and  the  impossibility  of  collection,  at  three 
hundred  and  twenty-six  millions,  and  the  cost  of  suppressmg  the  revolt 
of  the  Commune  at  eighty-seven  millions— in  all  $1,013,000,000.    When 
to  this  is  added  one  thousand  millions  of  dollars,  to  be  raised  to  pay  the 
German  war  indemnity,  we  have  the  very  respectable  addition  to  the 
pubUc  obligations  of  France,  since  July,  1870,  of  $2,013,000,000.    At 
the  begiiming  of  1870,  the  principal  and  interest  of  the  French  national 
debt  amounted  to  $2,700,000,000— and  we  may  confidently  reckon  that 
by  the  time  the  loans  necessary  to  pay  the  indemnity  and  other  out- 
standing liabilities  have  been  issued,  the  prmcipal  and  interest  of  the 
pubUc  debt  of  France  wiU  have  touched  the  astounding  sum  of  five 
thousand  millions  of  dollars." 

Other  statisticians  give  the  public  debts  of  all  the  Eu- 
ropean States  at  $17,000,000,000.  Six  of  these  nations 
are  said  to  have  standmg  armies  in  all  amounting  to 
4930,000  of  soldiers,  swelling  the  aggregate  of  the 
standing  armies  of  Christendom  up  to  six  millions. 

An  able  contemporary  writer,  presenting  these  facts, 
says  it  is  an  aggravating  circumstance  connected  with 
this  legacy  of  nine  thousand  miUions  of  dollars,  the  unpaid 
war  bills  to  be  handed  down  to  future  generations,  "  that 
in  some  cases  it  will  go.  to  them  with  the  assurance  of 
those  who  contracted  it,  that  it  was  all  a  mistake,  and 


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POOT-PRINTS  OP  SATAN. 


might  have  been  avoided."  Eminent  statesmen  of  Great 
Britain  "  have  deliberately  declared  to  the  world,  that 
the  long  wars  with  the  French  republic  and  empire, 
which  cost  Great  Britain  more  than  five  tJiousand  millions 
of  dollars,  besides  a  sacrifice  of  human  life  which 
money  cannot  measure,  were  all  waged  upon  a  wrong 
principle,  and  might  have  been  safely  and  honorably 
avoided." 

The  sum  of  $9,000,000,000,  only  represents  that  por- 
tion of  the  cost  of  war  handed  down  unpaid.    But  the 
interest  must  be  paid  annually,  amounting  at  five  per 
cent,  to  $450,000,000  yearly,  which  sum  must  be  taken 
from  the  industry  and  earnings  of  the  people,  to  meet 
their  obligations  for  locira  past.    For  wars  prospective  or 
possible,  the  yearly  expenses  of  the  forty-three  independ- 
ent States  of  Christendom  are  estimated  at  about  an 
equal  sum.    Nim  hundred  miUions  of  dollars  a  year  to  be 
paid  by  the  people  for  wars  past  and  prospective !    It 
is  a  sum  equal  to  the  whole  value  of  all  the  exports  of 
England,  France,  and  the  United  States  put  together. 
It  would  support  1,200,000  ministers  of  the  gospel,  allow- 
ing each  $750  per  annum ;  giving  a  religious  teacher  and 
pastor  to  every  1,000  persons  of  the  whole  population  of 
the  globe. 

"  Such  was  the  condition  of  the  people  of  Christendom 
in  1866,  resulting  from  the  cost  of  war." 

Or  we  may  arrive  at  a  very  similar  conclusion  by  an- 
other calculation;  by  which  it  will  appear  withal,  who 
they  are  that  very  largely  pay  this  enormous  tax  to  sin. 

The  laboring  men,  or  "  producing  classes,"  are  those 
who,  throughout  Christendom,  pay  nine  tenths  of  the 
revenue  of  their  respective  governments.  The  national 
debts  of  the  various  Chi-istian  countries  contracted  for 
wars  amount  in  the  aggregate  to  $9,000,000,000.  The 
interest  on  nine  tenths  of  this  sum  at  five  per  cent,  is 


WHO  PAY  WAR  DEBTS. 


105 


about  $405,000,000.  In  the  next  thirty  years,  the  work- 
kj  men  of  Christendom  will  have  to  pay  $12,000,000,000 
for  interest  on  this  debt.  Think  how  many  days'  work 
this  is  at  $2.00  a  day. 

This  is  not  all  that  we  do  pay,  for  it  does  not  include 
the  preparations  for  war.  For  these  the  workingmen  of 
Christendom  have  paid  during  the  last  thirty-two  years 
$21,500,000,000.  This  expense  is  annually  growing 
heavier  in  the  United  States,  Britain,  France,  and  many 
other  countries.  A  writer  under  the  signature  of  "  A 
Working  Man  of  America,"  makes  the  following  esti- 
mate: 

There  are  at  least  2,500,000  able-bodied  men  in  the 
standing  armies  of  Christendom — all  able-bodied  men 
these,  according  to  the  surgeon's  certificate,  which  is 
never  asked  when  men  are  wanted  merely  to  mow,  plough, 
and  sow,  and  make  stone  walls,  or  for  any  vulgar  utiUta- 
rian  purpose.  Every  common  soldier  is  taken  from  the 
laboring  class,  we  feel  dure  of  that.  The  population  em- 
bracing the  laboring  classes  of  any  country  will  not 
average  more  than  one  able-bodied  man,  according  to 
the  surgeon.'s  military  standard,  to  every  ten  individuals. 
Then  it  would  take  out  all  the  able-bodied  men  from 
25,000,000  of  the  people  to  raise  the  standing  army  of 
2,500,000  which  has  been  kept  up  in  Christendom  ever 
since  the  Battle  of  Waterloo.  Now,  instead  of  being 
mere  machines  for  murder,  suppose  these  2,500,000  able- 
bodied  men  had  been  employed  in  some  productive  labor, 
even  at  the  low  rate  of  less  than  fifty  cents  a  day,  the 
hard  earned  money  paid  by  laboring  men  since  1815,  in 
preparing  for  war,  amounts,  including  interest,  to  nearly 
$40,000,000,000. 

But  here  "  figtii  s,"  says  the  Hon.  Charles  Sumner,  in 
a  late  speech,  "appear  to  lose  their  functions.  They 
seem  to  pant,  as  they  toil  vainly  to  represent  the  enormous 


106 


POOT-PBINTS  OP  SATAN. 


sums  consumed  in  this  unparalleled  waste.    Our  own 
experience,  measui-ed  by  the  concerns  of  common  life, 
does  not  allow  as  adequately  to  conceive  these  sums. 
Like  the  periods  of  geological  time,  or  the  distances  of 
the  fixed  stars,  they  baflle  the  imagination.    Look,  for 
instance,  at  the  cost  of  this  system  to  the  United  States. 
Without  making  any  allowances  for  the  loss  sustained  by 
the  withdrawal  of  active  men  from  productive  industry, 
we  find  that,  from  the  adoption  of  the  Federal  Constitu- 
tion down  to  1848,  there  has  been  paid  directly  from  the 
National    Treasury— for    the    army    and    fortifications, 
$266,713,209;  for  the  navy  and  its  operations,  $209,994,- 
687.    This  amount  of  itself  is  immense.    But  this  is  not 
all.    Eegarding  the  militia  as  part  of  the  war  system,  we 
must  add  a  moderate  estimate  for  its  cost  during  this 
period,  which,  according  to  a  calculation  of  an  able  and 
accurate  economist,  may  be  placed  at  $1,500,000.    The 
whole  presents  an  inconceivable  sum  total  of  more  than 
two  thousand  millions  of  dollars,  which  have  been  dedi- 
cated by  our  government  to  the  support  of  the  war  sys- 
tem— more  than  seven  times  as  much  as  was  set  apart  by 
the  government  during  the  same  period,  to  all  other  pur- 
poses whatsoever  I 

"  Look  now  at  the  Commonwealth^of  European  States. 
I  do  not  intend  to  speak  of  the  war  debt,  under  whose 
accumulated  weight  these  States  are  now  pressed  to  the 
earth.  These  are  the  terrible  legacy  of  the  past.  I  refer 
directly  to  the  existing  war  system,  the  establishment  of 
the  present.  According  to  recent  calculation  its  annual 
cost  is  not  less  than  a  thousand  miUion  dollars.  Endea- 
vor for  a  moment,  by  a  comparison  with  other  interests, 
to  grapple  with  this  sum. 

"  It  is  larger  than  the  entire  profit  of  all  the  commerce 
and  ujanufactures  of  the  world. 
"  It  is  larger  than  all  the  expenditure  for  agricultural 


BTABTLma  OOHPABISONB. 


107 


labor,  for  the  production  of  food  for  man  upon  the  whole 
face  of  the  globe. 

"  It  is  larger,  by  a  hundred  millions,  than  the  amount 
of  all  the  exports  of  all  the  nations  of  the  earth. 

♦•  It  is  larger,  by  more  than  five  hundred  millions,  than 
the  value  of  all  the  shipping  of  the  civilized  world. 

"  It  is  larger,  by  nine  hundred  and  ninety-seven  mil- 
lions, than  the  annual  combined  charities  of  Europe 
and  America  for  preaching  the  gospel  to  the  heathen. 

"Yes!  the  Commonwealth  of  Christian  States,  includ- 
ing our  own  country,  appropriates,  without  hesitation,  as 
a  matter  of  course,  upwards  of  a  thousand  millions  of 
dollars  annually  to  the  maintenance  of  the  war  system, 
and  vaunts  its  two  millions  of  dollars,  laboriously  col- 
lected for  diffusing  the  light  of  the  gospel  in  foreign 
lands  1  With  untold  prodigality  of  cost  it  perpetuates 
the  worst  heathenism  of  war,  while  by  charities  insigni- 
ficant in  comparison,  it  doles  to  the.  haathen  the  message 
of  peace.  At  home  it  breeds  and  fattens  a  cloud  of 
eagles  and  vultures,  trained  to  swoop  upon  the  land: 
to  all  the  Gentiles  across  the  sea  it  dismisses  a  soKtary 
dove. 

"  Still  further :  every  man-of-war  that  floats  costs  more 
than  a  well  endowed  college. 

"  Every  sloop  of  war  that  floats  costs  more  than  the 
largest  public  library  in  the  country. 

"  Consider  the  prodigious  sums,  exceeding  in  all  two 
thousand  millions  of  dollars,  squandered  by  the  United 
States  since  the  adoption  of  the  Federal  Constitution,  in 
support  of  the  war  system.  Surely  if  these  means  had 
been  devoted  to  railroads  and  canals,  to  schools  and  col- 
leges, our  country  would  possess,  at  the  present  moment, 
an  accumulated  material  power  grander  far  than  any  she 
now  boasts.  But  there  is  another  power  of  more  imfail- 
ing  temper,  which  would  also  be  hers.    Overflowing  with 


108 


THE  FOOT-PRINTS  OP  SATAN. 


intelligence,  with  charity,  with  civilization,  with  all  that 
constitutes  a  generous  State,  she  would  be  able  to  win 
peaceful  triumphs  transcending  all  she  has  yet  achieved 
— surrounding  the  land  with  an  invincible  self-defensive 
might,  and  in  their  unfading  brightness  rendering  all 
glory  from  war  impossible." 

Or  let  us  see  again  what  other  investments,  not  less 
conducive  to  human  progi'ess  and  substantial  happiness, 
might  be  made  of  money  now  a  thousand  times  worse 
than  wasted  in  war.  Becently  a  British  statesman  pub- 
licly declared  that  the  cost  of  the  war  with  Russia  for  a 
single  year  was  $250,000,000.  In  order  adequately  to 
comprehend  the  amount  thus  employed  for  human  de- 
struction, consider  what  it  could  have  done  if  expended 
for  the  benefit  of  mankind.  It  would  build  6,000  churches, 
at  a  cost  of  $5,000  each ;  5,000  school-houses,  at  $2,000 
each ;  5,000  mechanics'  institutes,  at  $5,000  each  ;  5,000 
public  libraries,  at  $1,000  each ;  5,000  reformatories  for 
young  criminals,  at  $5,000  each  ;  5,000  public  baths  and 
wash-houses,  at  $5,000  each ;  20,000  life-boats,  at  $500 
each ;  50,000  houses  for  the  laboring  poor,  at  $500  each ; 
and  leave  $105,000,000  for  Foreign  Missions,  Bible,  Tract, 
Sunday  School,  Temperance,  and  Peace  Societies,  and 
Orphan  Asylums. 

And  yet  another  comparison,  or  rather  contrast,  will 
furnish  at  least  some  approximation  to  the  alarming 
wastes  of  war;  eleven  societies  in  Great  Britain  hav^ 
disbursed  for  philanthropic  and  benevolent  purposes, 
during  the  last  half  century,  £14,500,000,  say  $70,000,000. 
Yet  during  the  same  period  she  has  expended  in  war  no 
less  than  Xl,237,000,000,  or  $6,185,000,000.  Indeed,  the 
estimates  for  a  single  year  in  time  of  general  peace  are 
j£15,500,000 ;  upwards  of  a  million  pounds  more  in  a 
single  year  than  all  expended  for  benevolent  purposes  in 
fifty  years.    The  average  annual  expense  of  a  soldier  of 


WAR  AND  AQRIOULTURE. 


109 


ft  regiment  of  a  thousand  (costing  government  for  officers, 
soldiers'  pay,  rations,  ammunition,  barracks,  a  million  of 
dollars  a  year)  is  a  thousand  dollars.  That  of  a  home 
missionary,  on  an  average  for  the  last  twenty-four  years 
past,  has  been  less  than  two  hundred  dollars. 

But  let  us  compare  aivorda  with  plowshares.  Says  an 
English  writer :  "  It  is  estimated  that  all  the  agricultural 
labor  done  in  England,  in  one  year,  cost  £18,200,000, 
and  official  returns  show  that  the  cost  of  our  naval  and 
military  establishments  for  the  same  year  was  £18,500,- 
000,  that  is,  £300,000  more  than  for  all  our  golden 
harvests,  and  the  700,000  laborers  who  produce  them. 
Grave  considerations  must  arise  from  such  a  state  of 
things." 

"  It  is  very  difficult,"  says  the  Boston  Daily  Advertiser, 
"  to  credit,  or  adequately  conceive  even,  the  well-attested 
qtatistics  of  war.  When  such  a  philosopher  as  Dick,  or 
such  a  statesman  as  Burke,  brings  before  us  his  estimate 
of  the  havoc  which  this  custom  has  made  of  human  life 
in  all  past  time,  it  seems  utterly  incredible — almost  in- 
conceivable ;  and  still  more  are  we  staggered  by  the  for- 
midable array  of  figures  employed  to  denote  the  sum 
total  of  money  squandered  on  human  butchery.  Baron 
Von  Eeden,  perhaps  the  ablest  statistician  of  the  age,  tells 
us  in  a  recent  work  of  his,  that  the  continent  of  Europe 
alone  now  has  full  four  millions  of  men  under  arms — 
more  than  half  its  population — between  the  ages  of 
twenty  and  thirty ;  and  that  the  support  of  this  immense 
preparation  for  war,  together  with  the  interest  and  cost 
of  collection  and  disbursement  on  the  aggregate  of  its 
war  debts,  amount  to  more  than  one  thousand  millions  a 
year. 

"  Let  any  man  try  to  form  an  adequate  conception  of 
what  is  meant  by  either  of  these  sums,  and  he  will  give 
up  the  effort  in  despair.    The  Baron  estimates  the  war 


110 


THE    P00T-PMNT8  OP  SATAN. 


debts  now  resting  on  the  States  of  Europe,  at  $7,418,- 
000,000 — how  shall  we  estimate  what  this  enormous  sum 
'  means  ?  Shall  we  count  ?  At  the  rate  of  sixty  dollars 
a  minute,  ten  hours  every  day,  for  three  hundred  days  in 
a  year,  it  would  take  more  than  eight  hundred  years  to 
count  the  present  war  debt  of  Europe  alone.  Let  us 
look  for  a  moment  at  what  England  wasted  for  war  from 
the  revolution  in  1688  to  the  downfall  of  Napoleon  in 
1815.  The  sum  total,  besides  all  that  she  spent  upon  her 
war  system  in  the  intervals  of  peace,  was  $10,150,000,000 ; 
and  if  we  add  the  interest  on  her  war  debts  contracted 
in  that  period,  the  grand  total  will  reach  nearly  $17,000,- 
000,000 !  At  sixty  dollars  a  minute,  for  ten  hours  in  a 
day,  or  thirty-six  thousand  dollars  a  day,  and  three  hun- 
dred days  in  a  year,  it  would  require  more  than  one 
thousand  five  hundred  and  seventy-five  years  to  count  it 
all.  Add  an  average  of  $60,000,000  a  year  for  the  cur- 
rent expenses  of  her  war  establishment  since  1815,  an 
aggregate  of  $2,800,000,000  in  these  thirty-five  years 
and  we  have  a  sum  total  of  nearly  twenty  thomand  mil' 
lions. 

"  No  wonder  the  Old  World  is  reeling  and  staggering 
under  the  burden  of  such  an  enormous  expenditure  for 
war  purposes.  Twenty  thousand  milUons  of  dollars !  It 
is  nearly  thirty  times  as  much  as  all  the  coin  now  sup- 
posed to  be  in  the  world ;  and  if  these  twenty  thousand 
millions  were  all  in  silver  dollars  and  placed  in  rows,  it 
would  belt  the  globe  more  than  one  hundred  and  sixty 
times." 

As  civilization  advances  will  not  wars  diminish,  and 
this  frightful  waste  of  treasure  cease  ?  It  does  not  look 
much  like  it.  Satan  will  never  yield  this,  his  stronghold, 
on  the  world,  without  a  terrible  conflict.  And  all  the 
signs  of  victory  on  the  side  of  our  Emanuel  do  but  mad- 
den him  to  a  more  desperate  warfare.    The  destroying 


ABT  OF  WAB  PERFECTED. 


Ill 


angel  is  temporarily  restrained  that  the  "  sealing  "  of  the 
"  elect "  may  be  accomplished  ;  then  we  may  expect  the 
conflict  shall  be  heavier  and  hotter  than  ever  before. 
Hence  we  hear  of  stupendous  preparations  for  war — 
especially  in  Europe,  the  great  battle-field.  In  Great 
Britain  we  are  told  of  new  defensive  works  in  contem- 
plation, estimated  to  cost  £60,000,000,  or  $250,000,000 ; 
and  new  artillery  at  a  cost  of  $50,000,000.  We  hear  of 
frigates  at  a  cost  of  $2,000,000  each,  and  they  are  "  run  " 
at  an  expense  of  $375,000  a  year. 

Nothing  that  money,  skUl,  ingenuity,  or  inventive 
genius  can  do,  is  left  untried  to  render  the  art  of  human 
butchery  perfect.  Needle-guns,  mitrailleuses,  and  im- 
proved weapons  of  war;  iron-clads,  gunboats,  and 
every  engine  of  slaughter  are  devised  which  can  make 
the  work  of  destruction  complete.  In  no  other  way  does 
the  Devil  so  effectually  gather  such  countless  millions 
into  the  regions  of  darkness  and  despair,  in  a  moment, 
scores,  hundreds,  thousands  of  immortal  souls  aie  hur- 
ried from  time  into  eternity,  unwarned,  unprepared.  The 
battle-field  is  the  Devil's  harvest  field. 

We  ask  again.  What  it  Costs  ?  An  eminent  French 
statistician  states  that  the  land  and  naval  forces  of  the 
European  armies  number  2,800,000  sound,  picked  men, 
in  the  prime  of  their  productive  strength ;  the  annual 
outlay  required  to  keep  up.  these  armies  and  the  materiel 
of  war  is  over  $400,000,000,  not  including  the  value  of 
land  or  buildings  occupied  by  fortification,  arsenals,  hos- 
pitals, founderies,  schools,  etc.,  moderately  estimated  at 
$3,800,000,000,  on  which,  a  four  per  cent,  interest,  the 
yearly  expense  is  more  than  $150,000,000.  To  this  add 
the  value  of  the  labor  which  these  men  would  produc- 
tively perform,  which  amounts  to  more  than  $156,000,000, 
and  we  have  an  annual  war  expense,  paid  by  European 


112  THE  F00T-PRINT8  OF  SATAN. 

produoere,  of  nearly  $800,000,000  *  It  is  stated  thnt  the 
Crimean  war  cost  all  its  parties  more  than  a  miUion  dolhra 
a  day,  without  taking  into  account  the  actual  waste  of 
property  or  the  financial  loss  in  the  sacrifice  of  seven 
hundred  and  fifty  thousand  men. 

And  more  fearful  than  all  was  the  cost  of  the  late 
Civil  War  in  America.  Of  the  enormous  public 
debt  which  had  acoumuluted  during  the  war,  we  may 
safely  put  down  $2,500,000,000  as  a  war  debt.  But  this 
is  exclusive  of  incidentals,  which  we  may  set  down  in 
aggregate,  at  an  additional  $500,000,000,  in  items  like 
the  following  : 

Bounties  to  soldierB,  from  8100  to  $1,200  each $200,000,000     , 

To  Boldiers'  familieB 100,000,000 

Through  Sanitary  GommiBsion. "". 5,000,000 

«•  •«         SupplieB 9,000,000 

Obriatian  Commiasion. 4,600,000 

To  which  if  we  add  a  few  items  like  the  gift  to  the 
government  by  Mr.  Vanderbilt  of  a  steamer  worth 
$1,000,000,  we  shall  reach  Mr.  Greeley's  estimate  on  this 
head  of  $500,000,000,  which,  added  to  the  war  debt 
proper,  gives  us  the  round  sum  of  $3,000,000,000.  And 
to  this  we  have  to  add  the  tens  of  millions,  if  not  the 
hundreds  of  millions,  gone  and  going  in  aid  of  freedmen 
— an  indirect  tax  on  account  of  the  war ;  but  not  the  less  a 
part  and  parcel  of  tlie  expense  of  the  great  rebellion, 


•A  more  recent  authority,  L' Opinion  Nationak,  makes  the  \'.->'r.mi 

aggregate  of  European  armies  seven  millions,  viz.: 

Italy 900,000 

Austria  1,200,000 

Eussia 1,400,000 

Oermani?  Confederation 1,300,000 

France 1,200,000 

Besides  iy.<  c^t  uio^fjits  of  several  European  States,  which  amount  to 

another  i>  ^.Iwj. 


THE  AMEIUOAN  WAB. 


113 


unless  we  ohooae  to  set  it  to  the  account  of  slavery  in 
general. 

But  this  is  by  no  means  all.  We  have  to  bring  into 
the  same  account  the  immense  sums  paid,  and  to  be  paid, 
to  reform  the  ruins  of  the  war  in  the  late  slave  States! 
Trade  was  paralyzed,  labor  disorganized,  harvests  de- 
stroyed, and  fields  laid  desolate.  Schools,  colleges  and 
seminaries  of  learning  broken  up,  and  no  local  means  to 
resuscitate  them,  churches  destroyed,  and  a  general 
waste  and  desolation  over  the  whole  land.  To  say  it  is  a 
great  missionary  field,  whose  wants,  educational  and  re- 
ligious, must  be  met  now  and  for  years  to  come,  is  to  say 
little  as  to  cost  of  the  repairs  of  the  ruins  inflicted  by  the 
war.  The  expense  of  repairing  tae  wide-spread  physical 
ruin,  is  beyond  estimate. 

But  there  remains  another  class  of  war  expenses,  or 
rather  losses  on  account  of  the  war,  not  to  be  overlooked. 
We  refer  to  the  losses  of  Northern  men,  especially  of 
Northern  merchants  by  Southern  creditors.  It  is  com- 
puted, with  as  much  accuracy  as  is  attainable,  that  at  this 
njoment  the  indebtedness  of  Southern  traders  to  North- 
em  merchants  amounts  to  the  sum  of  $315,000,000.  We 
will  not  presume  to  name  the  grand  total.  Our  statistics 
and  estimates  refer  more  especially  to  mercantile  trans- 
actions. Domestic  and  individual  losses  lay  beyond  our 
reach.    These  were  fearfully  immense. 

But  we  have  brought  into  our  account  only  the  expen- 
diture on  one  side.  We  may  safely  repeat  these  sums  as 
the  cost  of  war  on  the  other  side  :  yea,  if  we  aUow  com- 
pensation to  the  owners  for  their  slaves,  it  will  not  suffice 
if  we  double  the  amount.  Were  it  in  our  power  to  figure 
up  the  grand  total  expense  of  the  war  (including 
4,000,000  slaves)  we  should  expect  it  would  stand  at  ten 
thousand  millions  of  dollars  1 

Of  the  pecuniary  expense  of  the  dreadful  war,  but  reoent- 
'  8 


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THE  FOOT-PRINTS  OP  SATAN. 


ly  closed  in  Europe,  we  have  as  yet  no  definite  statistics. 
The  bill  is  not  fully  made  out.    Already  we  hear  of  feax,'- 
fiil  ejtimiites.    One  correspondent  says  the  Franco-Pras- 
.   siaa  war  has  cost  Prussia  $1,000,000,000,  and  Prance  four 
times  that  amount    '^r  14,000,000,000.    And  in  this  no 
account  is  ma  le  of  ?oss  o*  labor  and  derangement  of  in- 
dustiy  and  trade,  the  devastation  of  citiea,  villages  and 
towns.    Imagination  falters  in  any  attempt  to  form  an 
idea  of  the  closing  catastrophe  in  Paris.     The  invasions 
of  the  Germans,  the  dreadful  havoc  and  unprecedented 
devastations  of   one  of  the  most  destructive  wars  on 
record,  all  seemed  as  child's  play  compared  with  the 
devastations  and  ruins  in  Paris  of  the  Communists'  in- 
surrection.   Never  was  there  witnessed  on  earth  before 
so  complete  a  portraiture  of  the  nether  world.    It  was  a 
place  "prepared  for  the  Devil  and  his  angels."    These 
foul  spirits  now  return  from  going  to  and  fro  through  the 
land,  everywhere  spreading  devastation  and  depi.h;  and 
taking  with  them  seven  spirits  more  wicked  than  them- 
selves, they  at  length  gather  in  the  grand  capita?,  where 
vanity  and  vice,  money  and  fashion,  infidelity  and  cor 
ruption  had  reigned,  and  here  held  carnival  such  as  none 
but  Devils  can.    Enclosed  by  impregnable  walls,  the  iron 
gates  barred,  and  surrounded    on    every  side  by  the 
ghstening  bayonets  of  the  besiegers,  hell,  in  hideous  min- 
iature, rioted  within.    The  records  of  those  fearful  weeks 
no  one  shall  ever  write.    They  are  sealed  in  blooc— re- 
corded only  among  the  orgies  of  the  Pit. 

The  final  catastrophe  came.  The  Versaillisis  enter  the 
city,  but  only  to  greet  this  great  Babylon  in  flames.  A 
third  part  of  the  city  was  in  ruins.  Her  beautiful  pal- 
aces were  scenes  of  woeful  desolation.  The  great  cess- 
pool of  corruption  was  cleansed  by  fire.  Vain  would  be 
the  attempt  to  assess  the  damages,  or  count  the  cost  of 
this  one  siege.    The  destruction  of  property  in  Paris  alone 


SAOBmOE  OF  HUMAN  MFB. 


115 


""*?^r!;.?™'*'"®'  '^'''^^  °^  *'*'  etc.,-has  been  set  down 
at  $160,000,000.  And  the  destruction  of  merchandise  is 
said  to  amount  to  1120,000,000. 

Such  is  war  Oh,  when  shaU  these  immense  resources 
be  rescued  from  the  hand  of  the  Destroyer  and  devoted 
to  the  arts  of  peace !  How  would  they  beautify  the 
earth  and  bless  the  world!  Come,  blessed  Potentete: 
come  quickly,  and  claim  thine  own. 

II.  There  is  something  worse  in  war  than  the  pecuni- 
ary  expense.  There  is  a  sacrijice  of  human  lif^,  appaU- 
ing  beyong  description.  No  human  calculation  can  now 
measure  the  rivers  of  blood  that  have  flowed  oat  from 
beneath  the  altar  of  this  Moloch. 

The  foUowing  is  but  a  mere  extract  from  the  bloody 
statistics  of  ghmm  war;  "one  chapter  in  the  annals  of 
violence,  crime  and  misery  that  hxve  followed  in  the 
fbot-prmts  of  the  great  Destroyer."  Thf  shrieks  and 
groans  of  dying  millions  have  passed  away;  but  the 
agonies  of  untold  multitudes,  plunged  unprepared  into  a 
hopeless  eternity,  still  tell,  in  horrors  unutterable,  the 
mighty  scourge  of  war. 

There  were  slain  in  diflferent  Jewish  wars  25,000,000. 
Li  the  wars  of  Sesostris,  15,000,000.  Under  Semiramis 
Cyrus  and  Alexande:-,  30,000,000.  Under  Alexander's 
successors,  20,000,000.  Grecian  wars,  15,000,000.  Wars 
of  twelve  Cffisars,  30,000,000.     Roman  wars  before  Ju- 

400,000.     In  wars  of  the  Eoman  Empire   with  ^^nrks 

30  000  onT^T  ^^^'^^?;000-  Wars  of  the  Reformation. 
dO  000,000.  In  mne  Crusades,  80,000,000.  Tartar  and 
African  wars  180,u00,000.  American  Indians  slaugh- 
tered  by  the  Spaniards,  12,000,000.  Nearly  the  whole 
army  of  Xerxes,  5,000,000.  Wars  of  Justinian,  20,000.- 
000  War  of  Gengis  Khan,  32,000,000.  Wars  foUow- 
mg  the  French  Revolution,  5,000,000.     Wars  of  Napo- 


116 


THE    FOOT-PRINTS  OF  SATAN. 


leon,  6,000,000.    The  battle  of  Issus,  110,000.    The  bat- 
tie  of  Arbela,  300,000.    Siege  of  Acre,  300,000.     Inra- 
sion  of  Milan,  300,000.    American  Bevolution,  200,000. 
And  to  this  appalling 'list  we  may  add,  as  not  unsuit- 
-  ed  to  the  same  dismal  record,  the  67,000,000  victims  of 
papal  despotism  and  barbarity,  and  2,000,000  Jews  who 
have  in  Europe,  first  and  last,  paid  the  penalty  invoked 
when  they  said,  ''His  blood  be  on  us  and  on  our  chil- 
dren."   And  modern  wars  in  Europe  and  the  East  In- 
dies have  slain  their  50,000,000.     In  a  single  year, 
(1849,)  there  are  said  to  have  been  slaughtered  in  Eu- 
ropean wars,  more  than  110,000  human  beings. 

Here  it  may  not  be  void  of  interest  to  come  down  to 
details.  We  have  spoken  of  modern  European  wars— 
of  the  aggregate  of  mortality.  From  the  catalogue  of 
thirty  modern  battles  taken  from  Allison's  History  of 
Europe,  we  have  the  revolting  statistics  of  a  series  of 
wars  mostly  associated  with  the  career  of  one  great 
manslayer,  the  hero  of  Corsica.  We  must  here  bear 
in  mmd  that  the  numbers  killed  and  wounded  in  battle 
are  no  full  index  of  the  loss  of  life  in  war,  and  seldom 
comprise  one  fourth  of  its  victims. 

The  following  figures  will  give  some  glimpses  of  the 
reahty  of  the  wars  of  Napoleon,  and  but  too  truly  verify 
the  dreadful  idea  that  the  glory  of  war,  whether  ancient 
or  modern,  is  the  multitude  of  the  killed  and  wounded 
We  quote  from  AUison's  History  of  Europe : 

"The  Bridge  of  Lodi.— The  Austrians  lost  2  000 
killed  and  wounded.  The  French  loss  was  also  2  000 
men.  ' 

"Arcola.-The  Austrians  lost  in  killed  and  wounded. 
18,000.    French  loss,  15,000. 

"  The  Nile,  (seajlght.j—l^elsoii  lost  895  men  in  killed 
and  wounded.    The  French  lost  6,225  men  killed  and 


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wounded,  besides  3,005  prisoners,  and  thirteen  ships 
out  of  seventeen  engaged  in  action.  ^ 

"  The  Bay  of  Aboukir.-The   Turks  had  9  000  en- 

fhfqnnn'-^nl  ''''"•    ^*^«  Turks  lost  everyman" 
the  9,000  m  kiUed,  wounded,  or  prisoners. 

Treblna.-.BnTmg  the  three  days  that  this  battle 
continued,  the  French  lost  12,000  men  in  i  td 
wounded  and  the  allies  about  the  same  numb^' 

««rv!f       °^  *^'  '^"'P^*^"  °^  ^^^^'  *^^  ««^e  writer  Ob. 

aUied  armies  had  lost  uearly  half  of  their  coUective 
forces,  those  cut  oflf,  or  irrecoverably  mutilated  bv  the 
sword,  being  about  116,000  men  I  ^    ^ 

anZ'snm^^''"^''^"'*  7,000  in  killed  and  wounded, 
and  12,000  prisoners.  The  French  lost  7300  kiUed 
and  wounded,  and  3,000  prisoners 

«^^er..--Loss  in  killed  and  wounded,  on  each  side 
(the  French  and  allies)  7,000  men. 

"  Maren^o.-T:he  Austrians  lost  7,000  in  killed  and 
wounded,  and  3,000  prisoners;  the  French  Tst  7.SS0 
in  Med  and  wounded,  ..nd  1,000  prisoners. 

iroJienUnden.^The   Austrians  lost   14,000  in  HUed 
and  wounded,  and  the  French  9  000 

mn^'^^^T'^^^  ^"^'''  ^'^^  °'^  SO'OOO  «^«^>  lost  30- 
rt^nlyl^'or  ^°"^'^''  °'  ^^-^---^  *^^  ^-i^ 
"^«*^^-One  of  the  most  remarkable  battles  on 
record.  The  French,  out  of  7,600  men  engaJd  had 
700  kiUed,  between  3,000  and  4,000  wounded  'and  m 
prisoner;    the    British  lost  only    U   killed 'and  28^ 

m^Zn'tlfT'f---^^'  Prussians  lost  about  30,- 
000  men,  killed  and  wounded,,  and  nearly  as  manv 
prisoners.    The  French  lost  14,000  kiUed  and  woun"7 


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**Ih/lau.—Jn  this  terrific  engagement,  the  Eussians 
lost  26,000  in  kiUed  and  wounded,  and  the  French 
30,000. 

"  Friedhnd.— Russia  lost  17,000  in  killed  and  wound- 
ed; France  8,000. 

"  Wagram.— The  Austrians  and  the  French  each  lost 
25,000  men  in  killed  and  wounded. 

"  ^ViZarem."- After  two  days*  fighting,  the  British  lost 
6,268.  The  French  lost  8,794  men  in  killed  and 
wounded. 

"  AUmera.— The  French  loss  was  8,000,  that  of  the 
allies  nearly  7,000,  the  British  alone  having  lost  4,300 
out  of  7,500  engaged.  When  the  muster  of  the  Bluffs 
was  called  after  the  battle,  three  privates  and  one 
drummer  answered  to  their  names. 

"  Salamanca. — The  allies  lost  5,200  men ;  the  French 
14,000. 

**  SmofmsU.— The  French  loss  was  17,000;  that  of 
the  Bussians,  10,000  men. 

"  Borodino. — *  The  most  murderous  and  obstiuately- 
disputed  battle  on  record.'  1  he  French  lost  in  killed, 
wounded  and  prisoners,  60,000,  the  Bussians  losing  the 
same  number. 

"  The  survivors  of  the  French  army  from  the  Eus- 
sian  campaign  were  not  more  than  35,000  men  out  of 
an  army  of  about  600,000  men. 

"i^fecw.— The  French  lost  18,000,  and  the  allies  15,- 
000  men. 

"  Bautzen.— The  French  lost  25,000,  the  allies  15,000. 

"  Dresden. — (Continued  during  two  days.)  The  allies 
lost  in  killed,  wounded  and  prisoners,  26,000;  the 
French  lost  between  10,000  and  12,000. 

"Leipsk. — The  battle  lasted  three  days.  Napoleon 
lost  two  marshals,  tv^enty  generals,  and  about  60,000 


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f^'^''^}'^^'^''^'>^^^^^^riApnBoneia.    The  allies  lost 
1,1W  officers,  and  about  40,000  men. 

"  Vittoria.~.The  French  lost  6,000  in  kiUed  and 
wounded  and  1,000  prisoners,  and  the  allies,  5,180 
killed  and  wounded. 

"  TouIouse.~The  French  lost  4,700  in  killed,  wound- 
ed  and  prisoners,  the  allies,  4,580  men. 

« Pam—The  aUies  lost  9,093  men,  and  the  French 
4,600. 

"Ligny.-The  Prussians  lost  15,000  men  in  killed, 
wounded  and  prisoners,  and  the  French  6  800 

"  Qmtre  Bras.~The  allies  lost  5,200  men,'  and  the 
French  415. 

"  WMoo—The  total  loss  of  the  aUies  was  16,636 
men ;  Napoleon's  was  about  40,000  men,  and  almost  aU 
his  guns,  ammunition,  etc." 

Passing  by  the  late  Chinese  war,  the  Sepoy  Mutiny, 
and  the  Crimean  and  the  Italian  wars— all  of  which 
furnished  their  full  quota  to  the  insatiable  maw  of 
Death^we  again  stand  aghast  at  the  appalling  sac- 
nfice  of  human  life  in  our  late  bloody  civil  war. 
There  were  in  all  called  into  the  service  2,688,523  men 
of  which  number  1,500,000  effectively  participated  iil 
the  dreadful  work  of  death.  Of  these  56,000  were 
slam  m  battle  ;  35,000  died  of  wounds  in  hospitals,  and 
184,000  died  pi  disease.  And  when  we  add  to  this 
dreadful  bill  of  mortality  the  tens  of  thousands  who 
died  at  their  homes  of  disease  contracted  in  the  camp 
and  of  other  tens  of  thousands,  who,  with  broken  con- 
stitutions and  the  sure  ravages  of  disease  preying  upon 
them,  only  waiting  the  slower  approaches  of  Death's 
footsteps,  we  need  not  hesitate,  perhaps,  to  adopt  the 
common  estimate  of  half  a  milUon  as  the  grand  total  of 
the  slain  in  the  late  war. 


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Yet  this  is  but  one  side  of  the  dreadful  conflict. 
War's  fearful  ravages  tell  a  tale  quite  as  appalling  on 
the  other  side.  We  are  probably  safe  in  doubling  the 
number  as  to  the  awful  aggregate  of  the  Southern 
slain.  A  million  of  human  lives  swallowed  up  in  the 
rapacious  maw  of  this  most  horrible  Moloch !  Such, 
again  is  war ;  the  Devil's  darling  engine  by  which  to 
waste,  demoralize  and  destroy ;  God's  fearful  agency  by 
which  to  break  down  and  move  out  of  the  way  what 
hindereth  the  onward  progress  and  full  establishment  of 
Emanuel's  kingdom  on  the  earth. 

We  have  assumed  that  the  sacrifice  of  life  on  the  part 
of  the  South  was  at  least  equal  to  that  of  the  North. 
But  when  we  come  to  the  estimate  of  ihe  pecuniary  ex- 
pense—the cost  of  the  war  direct,  and  the  fearful  devas- 
tations of  the  land  by  invading  armies  and  actual  battle- 
fields, the  comparison  is  vastly  to  the  account  of  the 
South.  The  following  extract  will  aid  us  here.  Alluding 
to  the  awful  retribution  which  fell  upon  the  South  in  our 
late  war,  a  speaker  in  Congress  recently  made  the  follow- 
ing statements,  urging  that  such  inflictions  on  a  defeated 
enemy  ought  to  moderate  our  demands  in  the  reconstruc- 
tion of  the  revolted  States. 

"  For  that  rebellion,  into  which  in  an  evil  hour  the 
Badicals  of  the  South  plunged  them,  they  have  been  pun- 
ished abeady  by  the  sacrifice  of  all  their  slave  property, 
valued  at  three  or  four  thousand  miUion  dollars ;  by  the 
sacrifice  of  more  than  three  fourths  of  all  other  personal 
property,  probably  two  thousand  million  more ;  by  the 
sacrifice  of  their  public  and  credits— at  least  a  thousand 
million  more,  by  the  depreciation  of  the  value  of  all  their 
real  estate  at  least  seventy-five  per  cent.-amounting  prob- 
ably to  more  than  two  thousand  million  dollars  more 

making  in  all  a  sacrifice  of  property,  credits,  and  values  in 


WAB  A  RELENTLESS  EEMON. 


121 


the  Southern  States  alone,  of  at  least  nine  thousand  mil- 
lion dollars. 

But  there  is  another  bloody  and  terrible  page  in  this 
account— a  page  in  account  with  death.  It  is  estimated 
that  there  have  perished  in  battle,-by  disease,  exposure 
or  other  cause  incident  to  war,  at  least  three  hundred 
thousand  able-bodied  white  men  of  the  South.  I  take  no 
account  of  the  unutterable  anguish  of  millions  of  crushed 
and  bleeding  hearts.  No  language  can  express,  no 
figures  measure  that.  For  that  rebellion  the  white  man 
at  the  South  has  been  most  terribly  punished!  Nine 
thousand  million  of  values  are  gone— lost  forever! 
Three  hundred  thousand  able-bodied  white  men  of  the 
flower  and  stiength  of  the  South  now  Ue  in  their  bloody 
or  premature  graves !  " 

These,  as  we*  said,  are  but  items-extracts  from  the 
bloody  annals  of  war— not  a  twentieth  of  all  that  are 
beUeved  to  have  been  slain  in  war.    The  whole  number 
accordmg  to  the  estimate  of  Dick,  is  14,000,000  000  •  or 
according  to  Burke,  35,000,000,000 ;  fourteen  times  more 
(accordmg  to  the  lowest  estimate)  than  all  the  human 
beings  now  Uving  on  the  globe.    «  Blood  enough  to  fill  a 
lake  of  seventeen  miles  in  circumference,  and  twenty  feet 
deep— in  which  aU  the  navies  of  the  world  might  float. 
If  placed  in  a  row,  each  occupying  four  feet,  they  would 
reach  442  tunes  round  the  earth,  and  four  times  round 
the  sun  ;  or  they  would  form  a  globe  of  flesh  (each  130 
pounds  average)  nearly  three  miles  in  diameter,  the  whole 
weighing  1,820,000,000,000  pounds." 

But  we  must  bear  in  mind,  as  we  said,  that  the  car- 
nage of  the  battle-field  is  but  an  item  in  the  sacrifice  of 
human  Ufe  by  war.  The  exposure,  the  privations  and 
general  hardships  of  war,  induce  sicknesses  and  diseases 
which  result  eventually  in  a  vastly  greater  amount  of 
mortality  than  is  encountered  on  the  battie-field.    And 


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THE   T00T-PBINT8  OF  SATAN. 


yet  proDably  the  aggregate  of  both  these  fearful  items 
fall  short  of  the  death-list,  which,  m  after  years,  follows 
in  the  dreadful  train  of  war.  Of  those  who  return  to 
their  homes,  having  escaped  both  the  hostile  weapon  of 
the  enemy,  and  the  pestilence  and  diseases  which  walk 
by  noon-day  in  the  camp,  how  large  a  proportion  become, 
at  length,  the  victims  of  diseases  contracted,  and  of 
broken  constitutions  there  entailed. 

Nowhere  else  do  the  annals  of  sin  present  such  a  per- 
fect, wholesale,  appaUing  scheme  for  peopling  the  regions 
of  the  dead  and  the  abodes  of  the  damned.  Death, 
under  ordinary  circumstances,  gives  premonition  of  his 
dread  approach — sounds  the  note  of  alarm  and  warns 
the  victims  of  his  unrelenting  call,  to  prepare  to  meet  the 
summons.  And  on  this  account  Satan  loses  many  a  Uege 
subject  just  in  the  moment  of  his  highest  hopes.  But 
death  on  the  battle-field  allows  no  space  for  repentance. 
It  summons  its  victims  in  a  moment  to  judgment  and 
their  final  doom. 

And  who  are  its  victims?  Not  innocent  childhood, 
not  decrepit  old  age,  but  the  young  and  the  strong,  and 
more  generally  the  most  thoughtless,  and  graceless  por- 
tion of  a  nation's  population,  the  last  class  who  are  pre- 
pared for  a  sudden  death.  War  is  a  remorseless  demon, 
whose  rapacious  maw  is  never  glutted  with  human 
blood.  How  triumphantly  has  sin  here  reigned  unto 
death. 


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WAK. — (Continued.) 


d  "3 

t     Co 


^ 
^ 


ITS  UNTOLD  Ems  — MODERN  WARS  —  THEIR  WHOLESALE 
DESTRUCTION— THE  BLIGHTING  CURSE  OP  THE  WORLD— 
THE  PRANCO-PRUSSUN  WAR— NAPOLEON's  MISGUIDED  AM- 
BITION—THE INFALLIBILnr  DOGMA— THE  GREAT  AND 
FINAL  CONFLICT— DEMORALIZING  CHARACTER  OP  WAR^ 
NO  NECESSITY  OP  WAR— THE  DUTY  OP  CHRISTIANS. 

Here  detaO  is  impossible.    Folios  would  not  suffice  to 
delineate  the  horrors  of  war.    Glance  at  the  forbidding 
picture  where  you  will,  and  you  turn  from  its  horrid  de- 
tails m  disgust.    First,  allow  the  eye  to  pass  over  the 
battle-field !    Two  hostile  armies,  made  up  of  the  youth 
the  strength,  and  the  pride  of  two  nations,  confront  each 
other  in  all  the  array  of  military  pride  and  of  deadly 
conflict.    Human  ingenuity  has  been  taxed  to  the  utter- 
most to  invent  instruments,  and  to  secure  the  munitions 
of  war  by  which  to  facilitate  the  work  of  death.    Its 
glor^  is  in  the  number  slain.    The  word  is  given— the 
onslaught  is  made.    The  Angel  of  Death  has  begun  his 
work.    The  roar  of  cannon  scarcely  drowns  the  wail  of 
woe  from  the  wounded  and  the  dying.    The  cloud  of 
smoke  that  rolls  in  black  folds  to  heaven  seems  but  the 
embodiment  of  the  shrieks  and  groans  which  tell,  as  Ian- 


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THE  FOOT-PRINTS  OF  SATAN. 


guoge  cannot,  of  the  horrors  of  war.  But  as  the  work 
of  death  goes  on,  and  the  battle  is  ended,  what  a  field  of 
blood,  of  anguish  and  death.  Limbless  trunks— head- 
less bodies— scattered  limbs— butchery  in  every  conceiv- 
able form— agony  and  death  in  every  shape. 

Three  days  after  the  battle  of  Waterloo,  a  multitude 
of  wretched  beings  still  remained  on  the  field,  unattended 
by  surgical  aid,  or  by  the  ofllces  of  a  common  humanity 
And  of  the  two  hundred  and  fifty  battles  in  our  late  war  * 
some  more  bloody  than  that  of  Waterloo,  what  untold 
tales  of  misery  and  woe  wore  breathed  to  the  passing 
wmds!    And  though  more  than    half   a    ceutuiy    has 
elapsed  smce  that  great  and  bloody  conflict,  (at  Water- 
loo,) many  are  the  traces  of  wretchedness  and  woe  of 
devastation  and  ruin,  not  yet*  obliterated.     Many  'are 
the  miseries  which  that  day  has  entailed  on  generations 
yet  unborn. 

V,  'fl'^^?!-?^"  slaughter,  the  frightful  butchery  of  the 
battle-field  is  but  the  first  scene  in  the  drama  of  war. 
AU  who  fell  there  were  either  fathers,  brothers,  hus- 
bands or  sons  in  as  many  households,  which  were  at 
once  clad  in  sackcloth  and  mourning.    Would  we  begin 
to  form  anything  like  a  correct  estimate  of  the  miseries 
of  war,  we  must  be  able  to  follow  the  wail  of  the  dying 
till  we  reach  his  home  and  witness  the  bitterness  and 
woe  there.    A  father  is  bereaved  of  an  only  son~a  mo- 
ther mourns  and  cannot  be  comforted  because  her  joy 
her  hope,  her  staff  in  old  age  is  no  more.     Or  a  young 
wife  and  her  helpless  little  ones  are    in    a    moment 
plunged  into  dependence,  hopelessness  and  despam 

CaroUna;  11  i.  North  C^olinT;  7  r^Vb^a^I^K '  T  """'"^ 
gether  with  battles  in  Florida  \L«  tr-  V  ^  ^®''^"*'''y  ^  ^ 
Pennsylvania.  ^'   ^''^  ^^"*'°'  ^^"^  ^'^mtory,  and 


««!POT  ICtnmi  KITALLED. 


las 


t»„t?   ,  *««»».   '"js  «n  eye-witness,  "  for  the  inhabi- 
tants  of  a  peaceful  territory  to  oonoeive  the  miserio. 
ncden   to  the  theatre  of  ,tt„h  a  sanguiuary  oonq„.su! 
that  between  the  French  and  the 'allied  forces'     The 
.o  djers  on  both  sides,  driven  to  desperation,  became 
reckless  and  pU.less,  and  straggling  from  their  colnmns 
in  all  directions,  they  committed  every  species  of  excess 
upon  the  people.      The  peasants,  with  their  wives  and 
children,  fled  to  the  oaves,  quarries  and  woods,  where 
they  were  starved  to  death.     The  villages  were  every- 
where burnt,  the  farms  wasted  and  pillaged,  the  aboles 
of  man  and  all  that  belongs  to  a  peaeeflil  country  and 
domesUo  comfort  desolated  and  destroyed  to  such  a  d^- 

fearfully  ,n  the  districts  thus  laid  waste  by  human  hands 
as  ferocious  as  their  own." 

As  we  have  already  adduced  our  late  war,  wickedly 
waged  in  defence  of  slavery,  as  presenting  the  most  ap^ 

of  human  life,  so  we  may  present  it  as  a  no  less  appall- 
ing eicample  of  the  subsequent  miseries  and  devasta- 

mflicted  by  the  war  on  the  North,  (though  neither  few 

uZr^i^'  ^?!,''  '"""^  "P  ''»'°'«  "'  «  ghastly  monT 
Zte  lb  .■'"'"''^'•''"''"'"^'"'"flio'-  Lands  laid 
17,;.]  ^^  "''™'«'""='«d.  i-d-st^y  paralyzed,  they  that 
had  roUed  in  wealth  and  knew  no  want  reduced  to  ab- 
ject poverty;  schools,  academies  and  colleges  broken 
»P,  churches  abandoned  or  destroyed,  and  the  frame" 
work  of  society,  trade  and  industry,  thrown  into  disor- 
Oer,  If  not  demolished-„hat  could  war  do  more? 
Tears  cannot  repay  its  ruins.  War  is  an  awful  avenger, 
^weU  as  a  p.taess  destroyer;  a  very  demon  from^e 

woe,  to  avenge  wxong-to  break  in  pieces  and  remove 


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THE  F00T-PBINT8  OP  SATAT. 


out  Of  the  way  whatever  hinders  the  onward  progress 
of  truth  and  righteousness.  And,  as  if  « honorable" 
warfare-oim7t«ed  warfare,  had  not  enough  of  death  and 
misery  about  it,  we  are  compelled,  even  in  this  19th 
century,  to  contemplate  features  of  warfare  which 
should  cover  with  shame  and  confusion  the  veriest 
savage." 

Who  has  not  heard  of  the  atrocities,  the  shameless 
barbarities  of  the  Sepoy  Mutiny?  We  were  astonished 
that  with  the  progress  of  modern  civilization,  the  re- 
finement of  the  age,  the  advancement  of  Chrfstianitv 
and  the  present  proximity  and  better  acquaintance  of 
the  nations,  one  with  another,  that  a  war  could  occur 
even  where  one  party  was  but  semi-civilized,  which 
should  climax  in  barbarous  cruelties  the  practice  of  na- 
tions m  the  darkest  ages  of  the  world.    And  how  much 
more  profound  the  astonishment  that  the  atrocities  of 
the  Sepoy  Mutiny  should  not  only  be  repeated,  but  in  a 
tenfold  degree  exceeded  in  Christian  America.     Who 
has  not  read  the  sickening  falos  of  AndersonviUe  and 
Liibby  prisons,  and  the  general  treatment  of  Northern 
prisoners  of  war  by  the  Confederate  Government  south. 
Ihe  starvation  of  prisoners ;  the  infliction  of  unneces- 
sary and  most  wanton  cruelties-shooting  men  down  if 
through  weakness,   accident  or  necessity,  they  over- 
stepped the  prescribed  Une,  or  appeared  at  the  window 
of  the  prison  for  a  breath  of  air-withholding  stores 
sent  to  their  relief  by  their  Northern  friends,  and  rob- 
bing  them  of  their  clothing,  money  and  personal  effects 
War  lias  no  conscience.    War  blunts  aU  the  finer  feelings 
of  man,  and  is  cruel  as  death. 

Whoever  shall  write  the  history  of  the  Slaveholders' 
Bebellion  will  find  himself  obliged  to  disfigure  his 
pages  with  recitals  of  cruelties,  outrage  and  barbarities 
to  prisoners,  which  will  make  the  reader  blush  to  own 


BEVOLUnON,  NOT  BEFORMATION.         127 

the  perpetrators  as  heirs  with  himself  of  the  same  hu- 
manity.    On  the  field  of  battle,  foe  meets  foe,  and  the 
greatest  butcher  is  the  greatest  hero.    Be  it  that  this  is 
honorable  warfare.     But  when  the  dreadful  contest  is 
once  decided,  when  acres  of  the  slain  lie  weltering  in 
their  blood,  and  the  groans  of  the  wounded  and  dying 
are  rending  the  air  with  their  cries,  and  the  defeated 
party  have  in  good  faith  surrendered  as  prisoners  of 
war,  the  simplest  principle  of  honor  and  the  most  read- 
ily conceded  right  demand  and  have  seldom  failed  to  se- 
cure  honorable  and  humane    treatment.     To    strike 
maim  or  torture  a/oZ/en  foe  is  an  outrage  past  all  tole-' 
ranee  among  honorable  contestants.     And  yet  more  os- 
tensibly  outrageous  is  the  act  when  perpetrated  by 
nations.  ,  -^ 

Yet  dreadful  as  is  the  agency  of  war,  human  progress 
is  here  greatly  indebted.    Few  are  the  instances  in  which 
old  systems  of  despotism,  oppression,  false  religion    or 
error  of  any  kind,  have  been  r^ormed  and  left  to  die  a 
natural  death.    Moral  suasion  has  its  use;  does  some- 
thing to  prepare  the  way-something  to  prepare  the 
minds  of  the  reformers,  and  those  to  be  reformed,  for 
their  future  missio       Yet  the  more  common  agency-the 
more  common  co^^se  ol  Providence  has  been,  not  by 
reformation,  but  by  revolution  and  destruction  ;  breaking 
up  and  removing  old  organizations  and  confederacies! 
disabhng  and  putting  out  of    the    way    the    abettors 
and  agents    of   the    systems    to    be    destroyed ;    thus 
clearing  ihe  ground,  removing  obstacles,  that  the  new 
building  may  rise  on  the  ruins  of  that   which   is   to 
pass  away.     And  the  sure  and  fearful  agency  which  ac- 
complishes   this    end    is    war-bloody,  relentless    war. 
Scarcely  has  a  nation  been  Christianized ;  scarcely  have 
the  seeds  of  civil  reform  been  sown,  taken  root,  and  the 
fair  fabric  of   a  nation's  true  grandeur  risen,  except 


128 


THE  FOOT-PRINTS  OP  SATAN. 


through  the  dread  agency  of  war.  The  pangs  of  child- 
birth, which  give  existence  to  the  natural  life  of  the  in- 
dividual man,  do  but  too  truly,  yet  faintly,  represent  the 
throes,  the  pangs,  the  convulsions  of  those  wars,  which, 
as  if  born  of  the  whirlwind,  the  earthquake,  and  the 
storm,  have  given  birth  to  nations,  or  opened  the  way 
for  the  building  up  of  free  and  civilized  communities 
on  the  ruins  of  old  despotisms,  whether  civil  or  reli- 
gious. 

The  following  statistics,  culled  from  the  records  of 
ancient  wars,  will  be  of  interest  in  this  connection  as 
further  illustrating  the  dreadful  powers  of  war.  And 
when  we  reflect  that  this  terrific  agency  has  been  at  its 
deadly  work  of  death  throughout  aU  the  past  generations 
of  man,  we  shall  comprehend  what  war  has  done,  and 
what  it  sJujE  do  till  the  Prince  of  Peace  shall  come  and 
establish  his  reign  upon  the  earth  : 

"  The  city  of  Thebes  had  a  hundred  gates,  and  could 
send  out  at  each  gate  10,000  fighting  men  and  200  cha- 
riots—in all,  1,000,000  men  and  20,000  chariots. 

"  The  army  of  Trerah,  King  of  Ethiopia,  consisted  of 
1,000,000  men  and  300  chariots  of  war. 

"  Sesostris,  King  of  Egypt,  led  against  his  enemies 
600,000  men,  24,000  cavalry,  and  27  scythe-armed  cha- 
riots.— 1491,  B.C. 

"Hamilicar  went  from  Carthage  and  landed  near 
Palermo.  He  had  a  fleet  of  2,000  ships  and  3,000 
small  vessels,  and  a  land  force  of  300,000  men.  At 
the  battle  in  which  he  was  defeated,  150,000  were  slain. 
"  A  Boman  fleet,  led  by  Regulus  against  Carthage, 
consisted  of  390  vessels,  with  140,000  men.  The  Car- 
thaginian fleet  numbered  350  vessels,  with  150,000  men. 
"At  the  battle  of  Cannse  there  were  of  the  Bomans, 
including  allies,  80,000  foot  and  6,000  horse;  of  the 
Carthaginians,  40,000  foot  and  10,000  horse.    Of  these 


THE  DREADFUL  POWERS  OF  WAR. 


129 


70,000  were  slain  in  all,  and  10,000  taken  prisoners: 
more  than  half  slain.  * 

"Hannibal,  during  his  campaign  in  Italy  and  Spain 
plundered  400  towns  and  destroyed  300,000  men.  ' 

"Ninus,  the  Assyrian  king,  about  2,200  years  b  o 
led  agamst  the  Bactrians  his  army,  consisting  of  1  700*' 
000  foot,  200,000  horse,  and  16,000  chariots,  Lmed  witix 
scythes. 

"Italy,  a  little  before  Hannibal's  time,  was  able  to 
send  into  the  field  nearly  1,000,000  men. 

"Semiramis  employed  2,000,000  men  in  building 
the  mighty  Babylon.  She  took  100,000  Indian  pris- 
oners  at  the  Indus,  and  sunk  1,000  boats. 

"  Sennacherib  lost  in  a  single  night  185,000  men  by 
the  destroying  angel.— 2  Kings,  xix.,  35-37. 

«  A  short  time  after  the  taking  of  Babylon,  the  forces 

ont^T  ^""^'^^^  ""^  ^^^'^^^  ^■«°^'  120,000  horse,  and 
-<i,000  chariots  armed  with  scythes. 

"An  army  of  Cambyses,  50,000  strong,  was  buried 
in  tne  desert  sands  of  Africa  by  a  south  wind. 

"  When  Xerxee  arrived  at  Thermopyl^,  his  land  and 
sea  torces  amounted  to  2,641,610.  exclusive  of  servants 
eunuchs,  women,  suttlers,  etc.,  in  all  numbering  5,283  ' 
320.     So  say  Herodotus,  Plutarch,  and  Isocrates. 

"The  army  of  Artaxerxes,  before  the  battle  of  Cun- 
axa,  amounted  to  about  1,200,000, 

"Ten  thousand  horses  and  100,000  foot  feU  on   the 
fatal  field  of  Issus. 

"When  Jerusalem  was  taken  by  Titus,  1,100,000  per- 
ished in  various  ways. 

1  om  nnn'"''!''^  ^^""'  ^*  "^"^"^^  numbered  more  than 
1,000,000.  The  Persians  lost  90,000  men  in  this  battle : 
Alexander  about  600  men.  So  says  Diodorus.  Arian 
ToL.     ^^'«i»^s  i^  *bi8  battle  lost  300,000;  the  Greeks 

9 


130 


im!  FOOT-PRINTS  OF  SATAN. 


Oould  we,  even  in  imagination,  follow  these  invading 
armies,  and  trace  their  wide-spread  desolations,  from 
generation  to  generation,  we  should  still  have  but  an  in- 
adequate idea  of  the  dreadful  ravages  of  those  wars. 
Had  they  been  the  work  of  a  single  generation,  might  we 
suppose  all  these  accumulated  horrors  of  the  battle-field 
to  be  concentrated  in  a  single  generation,  they  had  laid 
the  earth  in  ruins  ;  they  had  made  it  one  great  Aceldama. 

In  a  word,  we  may  say,  war  is  the  interruption  of  com- 
merce, tha  suspeasion  of  industry,  the  devastation  of 
property,  and  the  interruption  of  private  and  national 
enterprise.  It  casts  a  general  blight  over  the  whole 
nation,  and  covers  her  people  in  sackcloth  and  mourning. 
Every  interest  languishes  ;  every  condition  of  life  is  made 
to  feel  the  oppressive  burdens  of  war.  Are  they  patriots, 
then  ?  Are  they  friends  of  their  country,  friends  of  man 
or  of  God,  who  would  needlessly  plunge  their  country 
into  a  war?  Ambition,  revenge,  selfishness,  may  be 
gratified,  but  not  a  moral  virtue,  not  a  sentiment  of  true 
humanity,  not  a  Christian  virtue,  enters  into  the  feelings 
which  go  to  encourage  or  provoke  war.  They  are  of  the 
earth  earthy.  Yea,  more.  They  are  from  beneath, 
emanations  from  the  Pit,  where  are  wars  and  fightings 
hatreds  and  strifes.  Make  the  best  you  can  of  it,  war  is 
a  withering  scourge ;  and  it  will  be  the  prayer  of  philan- 
thropist, patriot  and  Christian  that  our  beloved  hind  may 
henceforth  be  preserved  from  this  desolating  scourge. 

Most  obviously  then  we  say  altogether  too  little  when 
we  speak  only  of  the  expensiveness  of  war ;  or  even  of  the 
sacrifices  of  human  Ufe  which  it  involves — the  physical 
miseries  which  it  inflicts.  These  portray  war  as  im- 
mensely calamitous,  and  of  consequence  to  be  severely 
deprecated.  But  war  is  more  than  calamitous.  All  ag- 
gressive war — all  war  that  may  be  honorably  avoided  is 
morally  and  egregiously  wrong,  is  wicked.    No  nation 


WHO  ABE  THE  msnOATOBS  OF  WiB?  131 

no  nght  to  inflict  such  mjurtes  on  another  nation.    Men 

WWW  dir  """""^  '"  ^^""'^  -ponsMiaef  a°' 
wien  they  determine  on  measures  of  war.    There  is  Z 

ev,    no  crime,  no  wickedness  or  misery,  of  which  w^;^ 

not  the  cause,  or  the  occasion.    It  is  L  bligh  Lcl^rse 

of  tie  nations,  the  woe  of  the  world     And  in  „?  ,1, 

leirali'thT  r  rv"'*-  <>' '^^  ^t^x-td 

destroy  aU  that  is  lovely  and  of  good  report  among  men 
Christ  came  into  the  world  as  the  "Prince  of  W^ 
He  came  to  establish  the  reign  of  peace;  andauThat 
are  h^.  in  spirit  and  in  truth,  are  "  peace-mkeiV'  TW 
kve  pe^^  and  follow  after  the  things  that  ^ake  f^ 

^^    .u        .  P'"'  "'  ^"^  '^  *•>«  mtit  of  the  world 
rather  the  spirit  of  the  Pit.    He  that  can  love  L^t^TZ 

"Fire,  flood,  famine,  pestilence  are  among  the  most 
ternble  and  exhausting  instrument  of  indfvidull  a?d 
national  chastisement.  But  their  combmed  desdations 
are  not  half  so  frightful  as  those  of  the  demon  ^  war 

The  waste  of  m»,ey  is  the  least  of  the  evils  Uiat  war 
engenders,  yet  this  is  palpable  enough  to  a^ple  oZ 
burdened  with  taxation.  If  the  thousandths  ^^ 
dollar  afready  expended  in  the  Eastern  war,  and  eZled 
for  ^tod  generations  as  a  clog  on  the  industiy  anltfos 
pen  y  of  the  people  composing  the  nations  engageTfn 
the  struggle,  could  be  followed  out  in  the  detaik  S  on 
pression  and  suffering  connected  with  tStuecLl 
year^by  year,  even  the  financial  cirse  would  ^tle 

"But  the  waste  of  life  is  a  far  more  formidable  evil 


132 


THE  FOOT-PRINTS  OP  SATAN. 


conflict,  when  the  war  was  believed  to  have  only  had  its 
beginning.  The  frightful  carnage  before  or  within  the 
defences  of  Sebastopol,  and  that  which  followed  in  the 
bloody  footprints  of  that  dreadful  war,  all  involving  un- 
told sacrifices  of  Ufe — may  swell  the  total  to  a  fearful 

'  ♦vith  other  lives,  and 


oeing  and  sympathies 


sum.  But  each  life  is  coiii 
forms  a  Unk  in  the  chain  of  n 
which  girdles  the  old  world. 

"  Hence  the  waste  of  homes  is  frightful.  The  Zouave 
and  the  Highlander,  the  Cossack  and  Turk,  each  has  a 
mother,  a  sister,  a  wife — somebody,  in  some  obscure 
home,  to  follow  him  with  a  loving,  anxious  heart,  to  the 
tented  field,  and  to  weep  bitter  tears  when  war  claims 
him  as  its  victim.  Oh,  could  the  rulers  and  statesmen 
whose  ambition  is  the  occasion  of  bloody  strifes,  trace 
out  one  by  one  the  desolated  homes  of  their  soldiery, 
and  hear  the  groans  of  anguish  that  go  up  from  broken 
hearts,  as  the  records  of  the  dead  distribute  their  woes 
among  the  nations,  they  would  pause  before  they 

Let  slip  the  dogs  of  war. 

"  But  the  waste  of  morals  is,  perhaps,  the  darkest  fea- 
ture in  this  catalogue  of  evils.  *  War  does  more  harm 
to  the  morals  of  men  than  even  to  their  property  and 
persons,'  says  an  eminent  writer.  And  another  charac- 
teiizes  it  as  *  a  temporary  repeal  of  all  the  principles  of 
virtue.'  An  army,  even  under  the  best  command,  is,  and 
must  be,  a  vast  nursery  and  hotbed  of  depravity.  And 
the  state  of  war  becomes,  to  the  nation  engaged  in  it,  the 
stay  of  all  healthful  reforms,  and  the  fruitful  source  of 
public  and  social  corruption.  Eeligion  weeps  and  withers. 
•  War  and  Christianity  are  Uke  the  opposite  ends  of  a 
balance,  of  which  one  is  depressed  by  the  elevation  of 
the  other.' " 


MORAL  DEVASTATIONS  OF  WAR.    .  188 

Or  go  we  not  back  beyond  the  commencement  of  the 
present  century.  How  stands  the  record  since  the  advent 
of  this  auspicious  era  ?    It  has  been  a  century  of  pro- 
gress, of  the  diffusion  of  hght,  of  the  extension  of  civil- 
ization,  of  the  advancement  of   Christianity.    It  is  an 
age  of  railroads  and  telegraphs,  of  extended  commerce 
and  enlarged  freedom.    And  yet  aU  tiiis  notwithstanding 
demorahzing  and  wasting  wars.    If.  in  spite  of  all  the^ 
formidable  drawbacks  to  social,  civil,  and  reUgious  pro- 
gress, so  much  has  been  accomplished,  what  might  have 
been  reahzed  had  the  vast  resources  wasted  in  war  been 
apphed  to  the  promotion  of  the  real  good  of  the  race  ? 
And  what,  under  the  reign  of  universal  peace,  may  we 
expect  when  nation  shall  no  more  rise  up  against  nation, 
and  learn  war  no  more  ? 

But  how  stands  the  war  record  of  the  last  seventy 
years?  The  Philadelphia  Ledger  states  that  there  has 
not  been  a  single  year  of  entire  peace  since  this  century 
began.  In  the  first  fifteen  years  there  was  war  all  over 
Europe  extending  to  this  continent.  In  the  next  ten 
years  Mexico,  Central,  and  South  America  were  involved 
In  the  next  twenty-five  years  the  great  European  powers 
carried  on  wars  in  Africa  and  Asia,  followed  by  the 
Crimean  war  and  other  wars  in  various  countries  of  Eu- 
rope^ Sin-  ,1800,  England  has  waged  49  wars,  France 
37  Russia  21,  Austria  12,  and  Prussia  7.  All  this  does 
not  include  the  numerous  revolutionary  movements  and 
mtestme  struggles  in  both  hemispheres,  or  our  own 
Indian  w^s  or  civil  war,  all  of  which  occasioned  great 
misery  and  loss  of  life.  ^ 

War  is  but  the  natural  incubation  of  sin.  The  pro- 
cess, as  a  high  authority  gives  it,  is  ttiis:  "Lust,  when 
It  hath  conceived,  bringeth  forth  Sin ;  and  Sin,  when  it  is 
finished,  (matured,)  bringeth  forth  Death."  And  not 
only  does  sin  produce  Death  in  the  regular  course  of 


134 


THE  FOOT-PMNTS  OF  SATAN. 


nature,  as  disease  or  the  natural  deoay  of  age  numbers 
its  victims  with  the  dead,  but,  not  content  with  his  sure 
and  irresistible  ravages,  as  with  his  irreversible  scythe  he 
outs  down  every  succeeding  generation — he,  through  the 
ever  restless,  wrangling  fermentations  of  sin,  effervescing 
in  the  dreadful  evolutions  of  war,  hastens  his  wholesale 
work  of  death  by  maddening  the  heart  of  man  to  raise 
the  murderous  hand  against  his  brother,  and  by  means 
of  the  terrific  appliances  of  war,  made  as  dreadful,  ter- 
rible, and  effective  as  human  skill  and  ingenuity,  and 
Satanic  mahgnity  can  engender.  It  is  not  enough  that 
Death  pass  upon  all  men  because  all  have  sinned,  but  the 
grim  monster  must  be  courted,  provoked,  maddened  to 
deeds  of  cruelty  by  the  voracious  demon  of  War. 

Here,  beyond  controversy,  is  the  most  revolting  incar- 
nation of  sin,  and  withal  one  of  its  most  common  devel- 
opments. Like  intemperance,  fraud,  oppression,  hcen- 
tiousness.  War  is  yet  more  emphatically  Sin's  own 
child.  And  no  wonder  that  in  prophetic  vision  the  ces- 
sation of  wars  is  made  the  prominent — the  decisive  prog- 
nostic of  the  coming  Millennium.  Swords  shall  be  con- 
verted into  plowshares,  and  spears  into  pruning-hooks, 
and  nations  shall  learn  war  no  more.  Christianity  is  an 
empire  of  peace,  though  its  advent  among  the  nations  is 
heralded  and  its  way  prepared  by  war.  Christ  is  the 
Prince  of  Peace ;  yet  he  says  he  came  not  to  send  peace 
of  earth,  but  a  sword.  So  strongly  entrenched  is  sin, 
and  he  that  has  the  power  of  sin,  in  all  the  relations  of 
life — in  all  matters  of  business,  and  social  intercourse, 
and  in  manners,  customs,  appetites;  and  so  perfectly 
perverted  have  all  these  relations  and  interests  of  life 
become,  that  the  simple  introduction  of  a  pure,  peaceable, 
uilsolfish  religion  is  received  as  a  hostile  act — as  a  for- 
eign element,  an  antagonistic  element,  a  real  antagonism, 
which  awakens  enmity  and  the  final  hostility  of  wicked 


CHRIST  THE  PBINCE  OP  PEACE. 


186 


'  1 


men  and  unchristian  nations.  Hence  envyings  and 
strifes,  jealousies  and  emulations  —  hence  wars  and 
fightings. 

We  need  not  then  be  surprised  at  another  dreadful 
outbreak  of  war  even  in  this  favored  portion  of  the  19th 
century.    The  gospel  of  Peace  had  been  so  largely  dif- 
fused—the Prince  of  Peace  so  taken  possession  of  the 
earth— the  Bible  so  extensively  circulated,  and  Chris- 
tian civilization  and  a  living  Christianity  so  advanced, 
we  had  hoped  that  this"  most  barbarous  relic  of  barbar- 
ism   would    cease  among  all  civilized,   and    certainly 
among  all  Christian  nations.     But  we  have  been  again 
startled  by  the  "confused  noise  of  war  and  garments 
rolled    m    blood."      The    late    Franco-Prussian    War 
at    the    outset,    threatened   to    set   all    Europe    in    a 
blaze.     It  was  one  of   the  most  deadly  conflicts  that 
ever  scourged  the  race.      In  four  weeks  the  number  of 
nctims  killed  had  swoUen  to  two  hundred  thousand,  and 
more  than  twice  that  number  of  prisoners.    And  in  four 
months  Prussia  alone  had  taken  335,000  prisoners,  and 
slam  of  her  enemy  an  hundred  and  fifty   thousand.* 
The  slam  in  a  single  battle  had  exceeded  the  entire 
losses  of  the  seven  years  of  our  Eevolutionary  War 
And  could  we  follow  each  dread  casualty  of  the  war  to 
the  bereaved  homes  and  witness  the  tears,  the  mourn- 
mg,  the  cruel  bereavement  of  mothers,  sisters,  wives- 
could  we  fathom  the  depth  of  sorrow  inflicted,  and  the 
myriads  of  homes  made  desolate— could  we  calculate 
the  amount  of  industry  crippled,  labor  wasted  and  busi- 
ness deranged— could  we  measure  the  magnitude  of  the 
evil  of  a  single  year's  conflict,  we  should  write  down 


..*J!i  ^^^^  "^'^^  prisoners  taken  by  Prussians ;  at  Strasburc. 
50,000,  and  at  Metz,  170,000.  '=>i.«»»uarg, 


186 


THE  POOT-PRINTS  OP  SATAN. 


war  as  the  direst  curse,  save  one,  that  our  Arch  Enemy 
ever  inflicted  on  a  suffering  race. 

While  we  cannot  speak  definitely  of  the  cost  of  this 
war — which  was  enormous,  nor  of  the  sacrifice  of  hu- 
man life — which  was  truly  appalling,  we  may  not  here 
overlook  its  cause,  the  spirit  and  intent  with  which  it  was 
prosecuted,  and  its  results.  A  moment's  consideration 
of  these  will  reveal  the  real  animus  of  this  very  unex- 
pected struggle,  and  will  justify  us  in  classing  it  among 
the  most  extraordinarj'  wars  that  have  ever  afflicted  the 
nations — and  probably  the  most  far-reaching  in  its 
results. 

The  first  moving  cause  of  the  war  may  have  been 
simply  the  ambition  of  Napoleon  to  distinguish  himself 
and  aggrandize  his  empire.  But  Napoleon  was  the 
"eldest  son"  of  the  Papacy,  the  defender  and  right 
arm  of  Rome ;  and,  as  instigated  by  the  spirit  of  Rome, 
he  threw  down  the  gauntlet.  Possibly,  at  first  he  knew 
not  what  he  did.  But  the  remarkable  coincidence  be- 
tween the  proclamation  of  the  Dogma  of  Infallibility 
and  the  declaration  of  war  would  seem  to  identify  it 
from  the  very  first  as  a  war  between  the  Papacy  and 
Protestantism.  It  w^as  a  wanton,  unrighteous  attack  on 
Prussia,  ostensibly  for  dominion,  but  really,  and  as  per- 
mitted by  the  great  Ruler  of  nations,  a  war  in  deience 
of  Rome.  "  It  is  strange,"  says  Bishop  Simpson,  writ- 
ing from  Europe,  "  that  no  sooner  did  the  gi-eat  Council 
declare  the  Pope  infallible,  than  the  struggle  between 
Prance  and  Prussia  began.  Like  thunder  in  a  cleur 
sky,  came  the  proclamation  of  war,  and  strange  enough, 
Prance  declared  it  was  a  war  between  Protestantism 
and  Romanism  "—permitted  on  the  part  of  Providence, 
we  fain  would  hope,  to  break  the  iron  **  bands  "  and  to 
"cast  away  the  cords"  by  which  Rome  has  so  lowg 
bound  the  nations  in  her  thralldom. 


A  8W0RD    OOETH  BEFORE  HIM. 


137 


But  we  see  as  yet  but  the  beginning  of  the  end.  The 
lines  are  not  distinctly  drawn-the  contending  forces 
not  ye  n^arshalled.  Yet  the  time  no  doubt  \astens 
when  the  powers  of  Christ  and  anti-Christ  shall  meet 
face  to  face  in  buttle  array,  and  the  one  great  final  con- 

hL  rit  T'-  •''  '''r'  '^  ^^°-  ^'  -^1  -"^-^^ 

his  right  to  dominion -he  will  scatter  his  foes-he  wiU 
consume  them  with  the  spirit  of  liis  mouth ;  he  will  de- 
stroy  them  with  the  brightness  of  his  coming 

of  anVf^K^  Yl  ^"^  '"  "^'^  ^^^^  '^'  "^ig^ty  power 
of  God  to  break  down  aLd  remove  out  of  the  way  what- 

ever  opposeth  his  onward  progress.     As  he  moves  on  to 
consummate  his  purposes,  a  «  sword  goeth  before  him." 
And  as  It  ever  has  been,  so  it  shall  be.      As  the  lines  of 
Providence   converge,  and  human  affairs  culminate  to 
their  great  and  final  consummation,  and  as  the  art  of 
war  and  its  appliances  become  more  perfect  and  destruo- 
ive,  we  may  expect  this  terrific  agency  will  become  ten- 
fold  more  terrific.   So  that  when  the  confederated  forces 
of  Christ  and  the  anti-Christ  shall  finally  be  arrayed  in 
deadly  combat    and  the  last  great   crisis  shall  come, 
he  conflict  shall  be  sharp,  short  and  dreadfully  destruc- 
tive.   In  such  a  universal,  deadly  strife,  we  can  make 
no  estimate  of  the  rivers  of  blood  that  shall  flow :  the 
flood-gates  of  grief,  that  shall  be  opened ;  the  hosts  that 
BhaU  be  slain,  and  the  countless  millions  of  treasure 
that  shall  be  expended.    We  wait  the  dreadful  issue- 
with  "fearful  looking  for"  the  yet  more  terrific  conflict 
when  the  great  and  final  battle  shall  be  fought. 

But  before  handing  over  to  the  future  historian  the 
dreadful  drama  just  pressed,  in  horrors  too  painful  to 
contemplate,  we  would  give  a  momentary  glimpse 
of  some  of  the  appailing  features  of  this  dreadful  on- 
slaught of  war.  For  where  else  can  we  so  surely  dis- 
cern the  unmistakable  foot-prints  of   the  greai    De- 


IN  I       I' 
ill  I 


138 


rOOT-PRINTS  OF  SATAN. 


stroyor?    If  war  be  not  the  instigation  of  the  Devil, 
and  that  in  wliioh  he  feels  a  peouhur  zest,  then  we  yield 
the  point  that  there  ia  a  Devil.     For  unless  moved  by  a 
spirit  from  beneath,  no  mortal  man  would  ever  devisej 
instigate,  execute  and  glory  in  such  infernal  devices  and 
acts  as  are  but  the  common  lot  of  war.     The  butcheries, 
maimiugs,  deaths,  sufferings,  bereavements  of  war,  are 
not  only  inhuman,  superhuman,  but  infernal — the  issues 
of  the  Pit — the  legitimate  incarnations  of  the  apostasy, 
a  genuine  device  of  that  wisdom  which  is  from  beneath. 
Who  will  doubt  this  that  knows  the  history  of  Libby 
Prison,  Andersonville,  the  Black  Hole  of  Calcutta,  and 
those  hells  on  earth  created  in  war,  not  by  men  formed 
in  the  image  of  God,  but  by  men  transformed  into  the 
likeness  of  Satan,  and  in  these  acts  given  over  to  work 
the  works  of  their  father.     We  will  not  charge  human- 
ity with  so  inhuman  a  crime.     The  move  than  barbario 
cruelties,  tortures,  protracted  deatiis  perpetrated  on  pri- 
soners of  war,  (to  say  nothing  of  th'e  gross  violation  of 
the    commonest   usage  of  "honorable"  warfare,)  were 
not  the  acts  of  men,  but  the  doings  of  agents  acting — for 
the  time,  at  least — under  the  inspiration  of  the  Devil. 

The  following  paragraphs,  penned  by  spectators  of 
the  heart-sickening  scenes  which  daily  transpired  on  the 
battle-fields  in  Europe,  are  but  common  illustratiuus  of 
the  infernal  doings  of  war.  Yet  it  must  bo  admitted 
that  this  Franco-Prussian  War  has  been  mor^  terrific 
in  the  casualties  of  battle  than  of  any  ever  waged  be- 
fore. Never  were  battles  so  deadly.  Never  was  the 
ingenuity  of  man  so  taxed  to  perfect  the  art  of  kiUiug. 
Not  only  the  loss  of  life  has  been  unusually  large,  but 
the  maimed  and  wounded  count  by  thousands  and 
thousands.  Those  who  fell  in  the  field  and  found  a 
ready  death,  were  saved  from  lingering  tortures,  the  less 
favored  fate  of  the  wounded.    When  applied  to  myriads 


DESOLATION   OF  WAB. 


189 


of   these    sufferers,  the    epithets  "awful,"   "terrible" 
seem  tame  and  inexpressive.      The  fatahty  of  the  strife 
18  vividly  pictured  by  a  correspondent  of  the  London 
Iims     Writing  from  Florenvilie,  near  Sedan,  he  says  : 
ihe  appearance  of  the  town  of  Douzy  I  cannot  better 
describe  than  by  saying  that  it  looked  as  if  one  great 
thunderbolt  had  fallen  upon  and  in  one  moment  destroyed 
It  utterly.     The  human  bodies  had  by  this  time  been  re- 
moved from  the  street,  but  the  charred  remains  of  helmets 
and  shakos   and  the  stocks  of  rifles,  with  every  here  and 
there  swords  and  bayonets,  and  every  sort  of  weapon, 
showed  that  while  the  flames  were  raging  all  round  them, 
and  the  helpless  women  and  children  were  literally  be- 
ing roasted  alive  in  the  houses  and  in  the  streets,  the 
maddened  combatants  did  not  cease  from  the  battle,  but 
died  no  doubt  in  numbers,  hemmed  in  by  the  flames 
while  they  were  fighting.    It  is  almost  impossible  to 
realize  that  such  things  can  have  occurred  in  this  age  of 
civihzation,    and    that    humanity    and  civilization  and 
Christianity  should  be  disgraced  by  horrors  that  seem 
the  very  outcome  of  hell.    It  is  like  an  evil  dream  ;  but  it 
IS  to  be  hoped  these  terrible  events  will  leave  the  world 
wiser  for  the  future. 

"The  completeness  and  suddenness  of  the  destruction 
were  evidenced  by  numberless  Httle  circumstances-such 
as  the  burnt  remains  of  birds  and  animals  one  would  have 
expected  of  aU  others  to  escape-dogs  and  pigeons,  and 
even  cats  in  large  numbers. 

"  Hundreds  of  the  people  betook  themselves  to  the  cel- 
lars, It  IS  said,  and  there  perished  of  suffo6ation.  No- 
where was  there  an  asylum  for  the  miserable  peo- 
ple-raging  flames  and  sufi-ocating  smoke  inside  their 
houses,  and  outside  falling  walls  and  roofs,  and  men  like 
faen^  incarnate,  fighting  amid  the  flames  and  the  blazing 


iil 


140 


FOOT-PRENTS  OF    SATAN. 


"  I  walked  about  through  the  dreary  streets.  Here 
and  there  wretched  old  men  and  women  were  hanging 
about  the  ruins  of  their  homes  in  a  sort  of  stupor  appar- 
ently. Some  of  them  were  weeping  and  sobbing.  *  I  have 
lived  sixty-six  years  in  tliis  town,'  one  poor  fellow  said  to 
me  : '  I  was  away  from  home  when  this  occurred,  and  now  I 
den't  know  whether  any  of  my  family  are  left  to  me,  or 
whether  they  are  not  all  buried  in  there,'  pointing  to  the 
ruins  of  his  house. 

"  Sad  Havoo  of  War. — The  Prussians  have  achieved 
an  almost  uninterrupted  succession  of  splendid  victories 
over  the  French,  but  alas,  at  what  a  fearful  sacrifice  of 
life  I  The  European  correspondent  of  the  New  York 
Times  says  that  the  awful  slaughter  of  the  Germans  in  the 
battles  around  Metz  has  sent  a  thriU  of  horror  through 
Prussia  and  Saxony.  Their  losses  at  that  place  alone  are 
said  to  be  not  less  than  one  hundred  thousand  of  their 
bravest  and  best  men.  The  flower  of  the  Prussian  army, 
including  the  magnificent  regiments  of  Berlin,  Bradenburg, 
and  Pomerania,  commanded  by  the  young  noblemen  of  the 
kingdom,  are  almost  annihilated.  All  Berlin  is  in  mourn- 
ing and  there  is  hardly  one  of  the  noble  families  that  has 
not  been  stricken  down  with  sorrow  and  grief  at  the  loss 
of  some  relative  in  the  army.  Such  alas  is  the  sad  havoc  of 
war !" 

And  this  had  scarcely  been  allowed  a  perusal  when 
another  recital,  not  the  less  revolting,  followed.  Incidents 
of  the  bombardment  of  Beaugency  by  the  Prussians  are 
thus  depicted  by  the  same  correspondeut : 

"An  immense  number  of  shells  fell  into  the  Convent 
des  Ursulines.  The  red-cross  flag  was  floating  over  it, 
and  over  all  the  hospitals,  but  no  part  of  the  town  was 
spared.  One  shell  burst  in  the  room  of  the  college,  which 
was  crammed  with  wounded.  The  whole  town  was  a  vast 
hospital,  and  there  was  only  one  doctor  capable  of  per- 


THE  DEAD  AND  THE  WOUHDED.         141 

formmg  amputations.    In  the  theatre  alone  were  upward 
of  200  desperately  wounded  men.    It  was  a  scene  Julh 

Would  that  those  who  hold  in  their  hands  the  power  to 
make  peace  oould  have  seen  it  for  five  minutes  I  There 
was  no  doctor  for  many  hours  in  the  place.  The  coM 
was  mtense,  and  many  a  man's  hfe  slipped  awty  fr^m 
there  being  no  one  sufficiently  skiUed  to  bind  up  hfa 
wounds.  The  dead  lay  thick  among  the  dying,  Zd  a 
Reformer  were  dragged  out  their  places  weretstanU; 

Aof  away  wandered  about,  pointing  to  their  dreadful 
wounds,  and  making  piteous  signals  for  water,  which  rt 
was  impossible  for  them  to  swallow.    Officers  and  men 

rfSrv  F  '"•"""'^.i"  °°^  indistinguishable  mass' 
of  ""^ery.  Every  moan  that  the  human  voice  can  utter 
K>se  from  that  heap  of  agony,  and  the  cries  of  '  Water  I 
For  the  love  of  God,  water!  A  doctor!  A  doctor!' 
never  ceased.  «wuiui  j 

T  "^^^T.^,f*.^°ff  ^°  *^^  P^«°«  ^^«  a  'Pension  de 
Jeunes  FJles.'    I  don't  think  that  any  of  the  horrors  of 
war  depicted  by  the  truthful  pens  of  Erckmann-Cha- 
trian  have  equalled  what  that  house  contained.     Every 
room  (and  there  were  many)  from  the  cellar  to  the  roof 
was  crowded  with  dead  and  starving  men,  lying  so  thick 
that  It  was  impossible  to  move  among  them. "  Some  had 
been  there  smce  Tuesday  evening,  many  since  Wednes- 
day.    It  was  now  Saturday,  and  not  one  drop  of  water 
not  one  atom  of  food,  had  yet  passed  their  lips.     Many 
were  desperately  wounded,  yet  still  alive.     There  were 
several  officers  among  them,  one  tenderly  nursed  by  a 
broken-legged  sergeant  of  his  regiment,  who  had  covered 
him  with  his  own  coat.    The  windows  of  the  house  had 
been  broken,  and  there  was  no  furniture,  and  all  these 
days  and  nights  of  almost  Arctic  cold  they  had  been 


142 


THE    FOOT-PRINTS  OF  SATAN. 


lying  on  the  bare  floor,  with  their  wounds  undressed. 
The  stench  was  awful.  Every  house  in  the  village  was 
the  same.  In  ^jxe  room  were  twelve  or  fourteen  men, 
many  of  them  corpses !  Worse  still  I  One  poor  lad  was 
lying  alone,  shot  through  the  thigli.  Cold  and  hunger 
had  in  three  days  made  him  the  most  piteous  ob- 
ject I  ever  beheld.  His  words,  *  Quel  bmheur  T  when  he 
realized  that  a  human  face  was  near  him,  will  never  be 
forgotten  by  those  who  heard  him.  That  night  a  kind 
Uhlan  doctor  volunteered  to  bind  up  a  few  of  the  worst 
of  the  wounds,  to  enable  the  men  to  be  transported,  but 
he  had  nothing  with  him  but  a  pair  of  scissors  and  some 
pins.  Fortunately  the  resources  of  the  English  Society 
did  not  fail,  and  most  of  the  sufferers  were  removed  dur- 
ing the  night  or  on  the  following  day  to  the  Convent  des 
Ursulines  at  Beaugency." 

"  War,  at  best,  is  barbarous."  It  claims  kindred  with 
the  Pit,  where  are  wars  and  fightings,  hatred  and  strife. 
The  rule  of  a  pure  Christianity  is  the  rule  of  the  Prince 
of  Peaca  The  events,  daily  occurring  in  the  prosecution 
of  the  struggle  between  France  and  Germany,  should 
suffice  to  make  all  nations  dread  the  very  mention  of  war 
in  all  time  to  come,  and  stigmatize  it  as  the  work  of  the 
Wicked  One. 

Notwithstanding  the  manifest  superiority  of  the  Ger- 
mans, and  the  victories  which  they  have  uniformly 
gained  in  all  regular  engagements  and  pitched  battles, 
the  expenses  of  the  war  and  the  exhaustion  of  the  con- 
test were  literally  wearing  the  people  out.  The  Germans 
were  said  to  have  a  million  of  men  in  the  field,  and  the 
drain  on  the  industry  of  the  various  States  was  enormous. 
One  large  iron  establishment,  which  before  the  war  em- 
ployed ten  thousand  workmen,  had  not  now  more  than  a 
quarter  as  many  hundreds.  Mr.  Wells,  United  States 
Revenue  Commissionor,  estimates  that  the  cost  of  the 


i.- 


WAR  DEMORALIZINa. 


143 


war  to  Germany  oould  not  be  less  than  a  thousand 
million  dollars,  while  that  of  France  was  probably  three 
times  as  great  The  invaded  provinces  suffered  loss 
to  the  amount  of  eight  hundred  miUions,  and  the  sacrifice 
in  manufactures  was  stiU  more  terrible.  One  fourth 
of  the  entn:e  population  of  Paris  is  said  to  be  engaged 
in  such  pursuits,  and  as  aU  departments  of  industry 
suspended  work,  excepting  those  which  were  essentiaUy 
warlike,  the  effect  could  not  but  be  seriously  felt  through^ 
out  the  entire  commercial  world. 
The  prostration  of  productive  industej  was  terrific.   In 

Prussia  the  loss  was  said  to  be  stiU  greater.     It  ontaila 
sore  distress  upon  all  her  interests. 

In  a  single  battle,  that  of  Sedan,  200,000  French  were 
opposed  to  300,000  Pmssians.    The  line  of  ZLZ 

arXr  Pif;  ''u  ""'"^^r  ""^""^^  ""«  ^"^ 
artUlery.    Five  viUages  were  burned.    The  Meuse  was 

choked  up  with  corpses.  The  losses  were  bTmX 
they  are  estnaated  at  80,000  killed  and  wounded.  WbJ. 
a  commentary  upon  war!  God  grant  that  the  time  m^y 
soon  come  when  nation  shall  no  more  rise  against  nation 
but  when  swords  shall  be  beaten  into  plou|hshares  mS 
ZZu^  P™--S-iooks,  and  the  mUd  and  benelTnt 
reign  o  the  Prince  of  Peace  shall  universally  prevaU. 

But  let  us  look  at  another  feature  of  war ;  we  mean 
ite&mjiroZm^  character.  War  is  the  prostration  of 
national  as  well  as  of  social  and  individual  moraUW 
War  keeps  no  Sabbaths-regards  no  moral pr^Ipt^ 
has  no  moral  principles-does  not  cherish  a  single  mo^ 
virtue  or  Christian  grace.  Its  spirit  is  revengef,^  hatT 
ful,  malignant.  It  is  the  spirit  of  murder  St  a^i 
rapine.  Eveiy  footstep  of  Mars  may  be  tr  cedt  olood 
Cruelty  savage  ferocity,  and  wholesale  murder  are  tht 
bo.«t  of  war.    The  theatre  of  war  is  the  hotbed  of  iT 


p    i 


lU 


•*"BE  FOOT-PRINTS  OF  SATAN. 


delity,  of  licentiousness,  intemperance,  vice,  and  crime  of 
every  name  and  degree. 

Perhaps  there  never  was  a  war  more  pure  both  in  its 
motives  and  in  its  execution  than  our  Eevolutionary 
war;  yet  that  war  left  our  nation  little  better  than  a 
nation  of  infidels.  The  eight  years  of  its  duration  sowed 
more  of  the  seeds  of  immorality  than  the  whole  previous 
period  of  our  colonial  existence. 

Suppose  our  nation  at  war  with  somci  foreign  power  : 
what  would  be  the  moral  influence  on  our  countrymen  ? 
First  of  all  the  mind  of  the  nation  is  put  into  a  ferment, 
and  absorbed  in  the  all-absorbing  theme.  Beligious  re- 
straints are  at  once  weakened,  if  not  removed ;  the  influ- 
ences of  the  Spirit  restrained,  our  Sabbaths  profaned, 
our  sanctuaries  converted  into  hospitals  or  prisons,  our 
benevolent  enterprises  deranged  and  restricted,  if  not 
suspended,  our  youth  corrupted,  our  systems  of  education 
broken  up,  and  every  means  oi  promoting  the  morality 
of  a  people  trodden  beneath  the  vandal  feet  of  war. 

Napoleon  Bonaparte  was  wont  to  say, "  to  make  a  good 
soldier  you  musJ;  first  corrupt  him."  So  to  make  a  war- 
like nation  you  must  first  make  that  nation  corrupt.  We 
could  have  no  hope  that  fifty  years  would  repair  the 
moral  mischiefs  of  a  five  years'  war. 

The  history  of  Christendom  furnishes  ample,  humili- 
ating proof  of  these  positions.  The  wars  of  the  Reform- 
ation, destroying  no  less  than  thirty  millions  of  lives, 
put  a  stop  to  the  progress  of  that  glorious  reform  which 
Luther  had  so  nobly  begun.  A  like  result  followed  more 
or  less  the  religious  wars  in  England  and  Scotland.  The 
blessed  revivals  in  our  own  country,  commencing  in  1739 
under  the  labors  of  Whitefield,  came  to  an  end  at  the 
outbreaking  of  the  first  French  war  in  1744 ;  and  from 
that  time  till  long  after  the  close  of  our  Revolutionary 
contest,  those  Heaven-sent  refreshings  were  "  like  angel 


TEMPTATIONS  OP  MILITABT  LIFE.  I45 

Wsits-few,  and  far  between."    The  degeneracy  of  New 
England,  greatly  accelerated  by  those  wars,  has  continued 

land  of  the  Pilgrims  regain  those  moral  and  religious 
fatet  she  had  in  the  halcyon  days  of  her  fo"! 

We  need  only  recur  to  the  common  conviction  in  regard 
to  the  demoralizmg  character  of  war.  We  look  on  army 
life  as  contammating  above  any  other  position  or  service. 

length  of  time  m  the  army  and  returned  to  his  home  un- 

wTt  ;  ""t  """S'-^*'^^^^  *^«  parents  as  especially 
favored.    But  why  is  camp  life  and  the  pursuits  of  war 

dl«f  ""T!      ^°  ^^'^'^  "^""'^^'^    ^«*  '"^'^y  because  the 
dread  reahties  of  war  are  not  dreadful  enough  to  lead  to 

the  most  solemn  reflection  and  to  the   most    earnest 
Christian  life.    It  certainly  behooves  the  soldier,  above 
all  other  men,  to  be  prepared  for  sudden  death.    In  a 
moment  he  thinks  not  of,  he  is  summoned  before  the 
Judge  of  aU.    And  how  can  he  be  thoughtless ;  how  can 
he  yield  to  tomptations,  and  riot  in  sins  the  most  gross 
and  heaven-daring?    Gambling,  drunkenness,  profanity, 
hcentiousness  are  but  plants  of  the  commonest  growth 
pn  the  tented  field.     Here  you  meet  the  hot-bed  of 
miqmty     And  aU  this  in  defiance  of  faithful  chaplains, 
Bibles,  tracts,  rehgious  books,  the  earnest  labors  of  col- 
porteurs, nurses,  and  a  few  pious  officers  and  soldiers. 
We  can  in  no  way  account  for  the  peculiar  depravity  of  a 
soldier  s  hfe  except  on  the  ground  that  war  is  peculiarly 
the  Devils  work;  and  his  Satanic  Majesty  claims  some 
peculiar  dommion  over  all  therein  engaged.    Hence  the 
special  temptations  of  the  military  life. 

War  is  most  decidedly  antagonistic  to  aU  moral  and 
religious  influences.  It  distracts  the  mind,  and  hardens 
and  corrupts  the  heart,  and  disqualifies  men  for  a  saving 


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THE  FOOT-PRINTS  OP  SATAN. 


reoeption  of  the  gospel.  It  generates  ignorance  and 
infidelity.  It  produces  a  general  disregard  and  contempt 
of  religion.  It  is  a  vast  hot-bed  of  intemperance.  It 
reeks  with  the  foulest  licentiousness.  It  multiplies  every 
species  of  vice  and  crime. 

War  also  withholds  the  means  of  grace.  The  five 
millions  ot  soldiers  now  in  Christendom,  it  deprives  even 
in  peace  of  nearly  all  religious  privileges.  It  gives  them 
no  Bible ;  it  allows  them  no  Sabbath ;  it  provides  for 
them  no  sanctuary ;  it  does  not  even  insure  to  them  the 
rights  of  conscience.  It  treats  them  as  so  many  brutes 
or  machines. 

War  tends,,  likewise,  to  destroy  the  efficacy  of  the  best 
means  of  grace.  It  blinds  or  steels  mankind  against 
their  power.  It  debases  the  understanding,  and  sears 
the  conscience,  and  turns  the  heart  into  flint,  and  hardens 
the  whole  soul  against  the  truth  and  Spirit  of  God. 
Could  you,  with  any  hope  of  success,  preach  the  gospel 
to  men  aU  ablaze  with  the  passions  of  war  ?  As  well 
might  you  think  of  reaping  a  harvest  from  seed  sown 
upon  an  ocean  of  fire.  War  is  the  work  of  demons  in- 
carnate ;  a  battle  is  a  temporary  hell ;  and  could  you 
make  the  whole  earth  one  vast  battle-field,  it  would  thus 
become  an  outer  court,  a  portico  to  perdition.  Kindle 
the  war-flame  in  every,  bosom ;  and  from  that  moment 
must  the  work  of  salvation  cease  everywhere ;  nor  ever 
could  it  begin  again,  till  those  fires  were  more  or  less 
quenched. 

The  case  is  plain.  Does  not  war  engross  and  exasper- 
ate the  pubhc  mind  ?  Are  not  its  fleets  and  armies  so 
many  caldrons  of  wrath  boiling  with  animosity,  malev- 
olence and  revenge  ?  Does  it  not  cover  the  land  with  a 
sort  of  moral  malaria  infecting  more  or  less  the  life-blood 
of  almost  every  soul  ?  Does  it  not  pour  over  empires  a 
gulf-stream  of  the  foulest  vices,  and  the  fiercest  passions  ? 


WAR  C0NTBADIC5TS  CHRISITANITT.  I47 

ing  the  L:C  Za?  I"  Uh  "r"^  "f  '"'■"="'^- 
to  Florida  from  tho  AH.  !•    i.  Tf^   ^"''8'"'»M«»e 

let  the  ^i^ZZ'^toiV^,^'',''T'^^^  ■■ 
perate  and  convulse  this  wh  le  Sn  *"t  """ 
spmt  pervade  our  halls  of  WkMn„      ,,'  ''"" 

of  Wing,  every  church  aS:tCt3:«t"T 
ical  and  newsnanpr  •  1^+  r.^      -x-     ^    ,     -^  puipit,  penod- 

every  mail  filled  with  news  of  ^Irv 'If    f '^''  ^^^ 

how  soon  wonli  he  SpWt  o^GodXT      ^^^ '  "■"» 
of  n<.se  and  strife/,  j;::,!  rnrltr^t ,"  "■'"'' 

Ti..seeth^ir^oSsrj:Jt^:f,S^ 

and  armies  under  Christian  banners    burninr^n 


M    'ff 


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POOT-PRINTS  OP  SATAN. 


But  we  should  find  no  end  of  showing  how  the  practice 
of  war  cripples  the  moral  energies  of  the  Church ;  de- 
bases her  in  the  sight  of  man  and  of  God  ;  hangs  upon  her 
like  a  mammoth  incubus ;  retards  the  world's  promised 
salvation,  and  stands  an  impassable  barrier  against  an 
expected  millennium. 

Can  Christians  then  be  indifferent  to  war  ?  Can  they 
be  otherwise  than  friends  of  peace?  Can  they  stand 
unconcerned  and  see  the  cloud  of  war  lower  and  gather 
blackness,  and  not  be  instant  in  prayer  that  the  God  of 
nations,  and  the  Prince  of  Peace,  will  avert  such  a  na- 
tional curse  ?    "  Let  us  have  peace." 

TJwre  is  no  necessity  of  War,  and  no  benefit  to  be  de- 
rived from  it  which  may  not  be  better  secured  by  other 
meai^.  There  is  no  more  need  of  fighting  to  settle  a 
national  dispute  than  a  private  one.  Sober,  well-dis- 
posed individuals  feel  no  necessity  of  appealing  to  arms 
to  settle  their  controversies.  Nor  would  nations,  were 
they  to  act  on  the  same  principles.  Two  honorable, 
high-minded  men  have  a  misunderstanding — a  dispute. 
But  they  would  quite  forget  themselves  were  they  in  hot 
blood  to  resort  to  fisticuffs,  the  dirk,  or  the  pistol.  They 
would  negotiate,  explain,  concede,  and,  if  need  be,  arbi- 
trate. So  will  honorable,  high-minded  nations  act.  To 
act  otherwise  is  to  imitate,  not  honorable  men,  but  fool- 
hardy duellists. 

Men  or  nations  may  get  their  blood  hot  and  fight, 
and  when  they  have  played  the  fool  and  madman  to 
their  hearts*  content,  the  dispute  in  hand  is  no  nearer 
settled  than  before  they  fought.  Still  they  must  settle 
the  controversy  by  treaty — another  word  for  negotiation 
— or  by  arbitration.  The  result  ^of  the  war  has  been, 
not  easier  terms  of  reconciliation,  or  satisfaction  on 
either  side,  but  irritated  passions  on  both  sides,  mutual 
hatred  and  animosity — the  waste  of  millions  of  proper- 


OiH  ALL  WAR  BE  ATOIDra)?  ng 

^,  the  sUughter  of  tens  of  thousands  of  lives  the  woe 
and  the  wsnt  of  thousands  of  widows  and  o^ns  Z 

itroftrorazr  ^"^"'' ""'  -'  "-•  ^— - 

How  useless  as  well  as  how  wicked  is  war  I 

Zl  .n  Tu^'  ?"  ^  aggressive  war  oan  bo  avoided- 
:lt;lVpo1nT^";  ^ ""^-'andlng.  o^tl 
If ,.  r^ofi  ?  ^""^  *^'«  ^«  aU  we  contend  for 

H  a  nation  invades  another  and  forces  a  war  upon  her 

mestio  sanctuary  to  dirt  „=  of  w     ^      ^^^^aaes  our  do- 
i;«.  X  .     ,  J^'  '°  <^^^^  us  at  his  pleasure.      Our  fami 

has  no  claims      Bu*  in^!    ^  """^^  *^'*'«^^  ^^^ 

so.  or  in ,  wa^o"'^:  — i;:^:  - -^ 

agents.    The  man  who  takes  the  responsibilifv  JT  I 
mg  out  fleets  and  armies  to  Ull  ,^^^'"''^'7^*^  ^^  send- 

ought  to  be  very  certain,  very  hearty,  in  his  hideous  wort 

But  we  touch  on  our  next  and  last  topic. 

rhe  DiUy  ^  aa  Ohrutian  FatriotiaMl  Friend,  of 
Humamty  m  r^'erence  to  War.-ll  war  be  suchTT  -y 
It"  'r/^'f^  P»'-y»d,  the  qlstloTof  ir^ 

Lti'e  o  MsTa'cr  r  ''n  Y  """"'-'"-  ^ 
pr^ers^f e  win  uZu  Z^.^^JZ^tl^  ^ 
be  the  advocate  and  friend  of  peace.  He  will  VllTIn 
lus  power  to  contribute  his  sha«  to  create  a  whtles^m: 


If     '1 


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THE    FOOT-PRINTS  OP  SATAN. 


public  sentiment  on  this  subject.  And  perhaps  in  no 
other  way  can  the  patriot  and  the  Christian,  in  a  nation 
like  ours,  more  eflfectually  serve  his  country.  We  are 
not,  and  may  never  be  without  men  in  high  official  sta- 
tions, whose  interest,  or  whose  hot  blood  and  indiscre- 
tion would  not,  at  almost  any  time,  plunge  us  into  a 
war.  And  what  hinders  that  they  should  do  so  ?  Noth- 
ing, humanly  speaking,  but  the  prevalence  of  an  over- 
powering public  sentiment  against  it.  To  this  our  ru- 
lers are  obliged  to  bow.  And  though  submission  to 
public  sentiment  is  obviously  becoming  more  irksome  to 
them  than  it  was  in  the  days  of  a  truer  patriotism,  yet 
bow  to  it  they  still  must.  They  cannot  have  a  war  with- 
out, or  contrary  to  the  will  of  the  people.  Some  would 
plunge  us  into  a  war  for  party  purposes ;  some  for  pur- 
poses of  ambition  or  private  interest,  or  to  gain  noto- 
riety for  themselves  or  others  under  a  show  of  reputed 
philanthropy. 


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INTEMPERANCE. 


XoA  rr""^™  ~™  »"  ""^^  A«D  LIFE  :  ™ 
AMEMOA,  ™  THE  01T.E8  OF  NEW  YOnH,  PHILAI>ELPBIi, 
OmOAGO-IN  ENOMD  AND  FBANOE-WLraNOB  ON  LABOR 

goes  forth  destroj,.,g  and  to  destroy,  in  the  horrible  en- 
gmery  of  war.  We  here  direct  attention  t„  another  line 
of  h«  devastotions  and  rmns  among  the  sons  of  meaTa 
hne  Ang  wh,oh  he  not  less  thickly  strewn  the  trophie^ 
of  h.B  direfnl  reign.    We  speak  of  Intemperance.    We 

rating  dLk"     °'  """""'  Enemy,  is  the  use'of  intox- 

befle  fA"""*  '  ''"  °'  ""^  »P«"fi<»'«<»«  in  the  count 
before  us,  showing  some  of  the  ways  m  which  Intemper- 

Zl  a  wT*  ""',  '^'  °'  '^o  strongholds  of'the 
l»eTil_a  fearful  power  for  evil,  and  consequently  a  choice 
device  with  its  Author  and  Finisher.  And  ^  ""'"^ 
I.  Intemperance  works  the  destruction  of  an  immense 
«aount  of  property,  and  is  the  inveterate  foe  oHiuZ 


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THE    FOOT-PRINTS  OF  SATAN. 


industry.  This  appalling  evil  costs  our  nation  hundreds 
of  millions  annually.  And  it  is  a  growing  evil.  Its  on- 
ward march  for  the  last  ten  years  has  been  truly  appalling. 

Dr.  Hargrave,  the  eminent  statistician  of  Penflsylvania, 
in  an  essay  on  this  subject,  presents  the  following  figures  : 
"  By  the  census  of  1870  we  find  there  were  distilled  in 
the  United    States,    80,002,797   gallons    of    spirituous 
liquors,  which,  if  sold  by  retail,  would  bring  the  sum  of 
$616,020,579."    It  is  settled  by  all  the  writers  I  have 
seen  on  the  subject,  that  rectifiers,  wholesale  dealers  and 
retailers,  adulterate  and  compound  at  the  rate  of  from 
two  to  four  gallons  for  every  one  of  distilled  spirits,  added 
between  the  still  and  the  bottle  and  glass  of  the  con- 
sumer— say  but  two  for  one.    And  add  the  imported 
spirituous  liquors  at  retail  figures,  and  we  have  $1,864,- 
523,688  for  spirituous  liquors  in  one  year.    "  The  same 
year  there  were  brewed  in  the  United  States,  5,114,140 
barrels  of  fermented  liquors,  which  at  retail  prices  would 
bring  $123,000,000."    Add  the  imported  at  retail  price, 
$2,526,660 ;  add  the  imported  wine  of  the  same  period 
at  retail  figures,  $15,676,635,  and  then  say  that    our 
home  wine  only  amounts  to  the  same,  which  is  very  far 
below  the  figures,  for  the  Cincinnati  Gazette  said,  two 
years  ago,  that  Ohio  made  twice  as  milch  wine  as  was 
imported  into  the  United  States,  and  we  have  $31,353,270, 
giving  the  overwhelming  grand  total  for  drinks,  $2,020,- 
403;624. 

To  comprehend  the  magnitude  of  the  cost  of  iutoxi- 
cating  drinks,  let  us  go  one  step  further  and  compare  its 
cost  with  boiae  of  the  necessary  productions  of  the 
country. 

By  the  census  of  1870,  we  find  the  value  of  the  six 
leading  productions  of  the  country  were,  flour  and  meal, 
$524,000,000;  cotton  goods,  $li5,000,000 ;  boots  and 
shoes,  $90,000,000 ;  clothing,  $70,000,000 ;  woolen  goods, 


$69,000,000;  books,  newspapers  and  job  t>rin«„a  IMO 
000,000.    Total,  t910.000,000.-  ThuTrhavrtLetp^- 

was  »1,U0,403,624  more  than  the  value  of  all  the  flou^ 
and  meal,  cotton  goods,  boots  and  shoes,  woolen  goodT 
clothmg,  and  prmtu,g  of  books,  newspapers,  af d  aU 
other  pubUoations  in  the  United  States  for  'the  sa:f 

St^e!  tl'".'^°1  ""^  "'  "toxicating  drinks  in  the  United 
htates  fqr  a  single  year  we  have  seen  to  be  $2  020  403  6M 

iTeitvif  "^'"^  -n  »739,020,579.  ^ST^Z 
causea  by  intemperance,  $87  800  000     O^^i-  ^f 

worn.    The  total  proximate    cost    of   intemperance 

people  tax  themselves  over  two  hundred'  t^e,  a" 
for  mtemperance  as  the  oixUnaiy  cost  of  the  uXd 
States  government.    AU  the  extraordinary  approprMo^ 

Dur^nrthZf  '  '  ?•  '"■'*'"  1863, $882,288,800. 
IJunng  these  two  years  of  terrible  war,  raising  armies 

n  each  of  140,000  licensed  rumsellera  in  the  United 
States  have  twenty  customers  daily,  then  we  have  Tm- 
000  tipplers  on  the  direct  route  to  a  drunkard's  doom 

^S'^S.B^^c'oXmTsot  ^'-^  '^  '"«  ^-<*- 


154 


THE  rOOT-PBINTS  OF  SATAN. 


And  yet  more  appalling  is  the  record  of  1870.  Hon. 
David  A.  Wells,  Special  Commissioner  of  Revenue,  gives 
us  statistics  which  we  fain  would  believe  an  exaggeration, 
did  not  the  stubborn  facts  already  stated  pronounce  the 
whole  as  but  too^true.  "The  value,"  he  says,  "of  the 
retail  liquor  sales,  that  is,  the  first  cost  to  customers, 
reaches  in  a  single  year  the  enormous  sum  of  $1,483,- 
491,865,  being  $43  for  every  man,  woman  and  child  in  the 
country.  It  is  very  nearly  one  eighth  of  the  cost  of  all 
the  merchandise  (including  the  wholesale  of  liquors)  by 
wholesale  and  retail  dealers,  auctioneers  and  commercial 
brokers  during  the  same  period,  which  was  $11,870,337,- 
205.  It  is  more  than  the  entire  product  of  precious 
metals  from  all  the  States  and  Territories  west  of  the 
Rocky  Mountains  for  twenty  years,  from  1848  to  1868. 
Mr.  J.  Ross  Browne,  in  his  recent  report  to  the  Secre- 
tary of  the  Treasury,  estimates  it  at  $1,165,502,848.  One 
is  horror-stricken  at  the  aggregate  of  this  gigantic  power 
for  evil  which  these  figures  indicate. 

There  are  to-day  400,000  more  men  engaged  in  the 
manufacture  and  sale  of  intoxicating  liquors  than  there 
are  in  preaching  the  gospel,  and  in  all  the  departments 
of  education  the  country  through. 

The  statistics  of  intemperance  never  can  be  compiled. 
We  can  only  approximate  to  the  evils  resulting  from  the 
sale  of  liquor :  60,000  annually  destroyed ;  100,000  men 
and  women  sent  to  prison ;  200,000  children  to  poor- 
houses  and  charitable  institutions ;  600,000  drunkards — 
tell  a  sad  but  small  portion  of  the  story.  The  destruc- 
tion of  intellect  and  of  soul  cannot  be  computed.  The 
sorrows  and  burdens  of  worse  than  widows  and  orphans 
surpass  all  arithmetical  calculation.  The  loss  in  the 
deterioration  of  labor  alone,  among  the  moderate  drink- 
ers, cannot  be  less  than  $1,500,000,000.  The  amount 
spent  for  liquors,  wholesale  and  retail,  exceeds  $1,000,- 


INTEMPERANOE  AND    LABOR.  I55 

000,000-aU  worse  than  wasted.  Add  to  this  the  cost  of 
supporting  the  oriminals  and  paupers,  the  cost  of  manu- 
facture of  price  of  grain,  hops,  etc.,  which  amounts  to 
more  than  as  much  more,  and  we  have  over  two  thousand 
milhon  dollars  in  these  items  alone. 

Or  take  a  single  State.    Let  it  be  that  of  New  York, 
^d  how  stands  the  dread  account  here  ?    The  Jlrat  cost 

ImmiZn*  Tf/?.'""'""^'^  ^^  fi"^  put  down  at 
$246  607,000.*    And  this  is  but  an  item.     Suppose  we 

add  to  this  but  one  other,  the  waste  of  time  and  produc- 
tive labor,  and  the  account  is  fearful.    According  to  the 
census  the  population  of  the  State  of  New  York  was 
estimated  to  be  3,831,777.    Number  of  drunkards,  (sots,) 
8,340     Value  of  yearly  lost  time  to  the  State  by  drunk- 
ards (sots,)  at  $1.00  per  day,  $2,600,310.     Value  of  lost 
^me  during  their  lives,  $113,012,977.    Number  of  regular 
drinkers,  83,400.     Value  of  lost  time  to  State,  (their  lives 
bemg  shortened  twenty-two  years,  and  their  sickness  in- 
creased twenty-two  and  a  half  days  each  year,)  $13,677  - 
bOO     Value  of  time  lost  during  their  Uves,  $603,065,400. 
Total  value  of  the  yearly  lost  time  to  the  State  from  the 
habitual  use  of    alcoholic    liquors,  $16,257,920.    Total 

$715  878,380.  The  loss  to  the  State  by  occasional  drink' 
ing  has  not  been  estimated.  This  statement  shows  but 
a  small  part  of  the  actual  loss  from  'utemperance.  The 
cost  of  the  poverty  which  seeks  shelter  in  the  almshouse 
--of  the  crime  which  employs  an  army  of  law  officers- 
has  not  been  added  to  these  startling  statistics 


St.J  n"  """^  ^^"^  ^^  ^°'  '*"^  ^"°'  ^o^a'^.  and  child  in  the 
cost  of  mtoxxcatmg  drinks  in  the  country,  we  should  be  obliged  to  let 
«ew  ifork  are  21,242  hcensed  ram-shops  and  6.750  churches. 


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THE   FOOT-PRINTS  OF  SATAN. 


The  deterioration  of  labor  is  a  telling  item  in  the  account 
before  us : 

The  Messrs.  Ames,  of  northeastern  Massachusetts, 
who  employ  about  four  hundred  men  in  the  manufactur- 
ing business,  certify  that,  under  the  operatiori  of  the 
Ucense  law,  when  their  men  had  free  access  to  Hquor, 
the  product  of  their  work  fell  off  14  per  cent,  from  what 
it  was  under  the  prohibitory  law,  when  no  liquor  was 
sold  in  their  vicinity.  This  ratio  would  make  at  least 
fifty  millions  difference,  in  the  ore  item  of  labor,  in  favor 
of  a  prohibitory  law  in  Massachusetts,  and  fifteen  hun- 
dred millions  in  the  United  States,  from  the  deterioration 
of  labor  aloue. 

Would  we  encounter  the  monster  in  his  den  we  must 
gc  at  once  to  our  great  emporium,  where  all  that  is  bad 
(as  well  as  all  that  is  good)  riots  in  all  its  hideous  orgies. 
We  meet  the  following  from  reliable  SDurces : 

It  is  estimated  that  the  sum  of  $200,000,000  is  invested 
in  the  rum  traffic  in  the  city  of  New  "Xork.  The  revenue 
received  for  licenses  amounts  to  more  than  $1,000,000  a 
year.  The  arrests  will  average  upward  of  2,000  per  week, 
and  nineteen  out  of  tweniy  are  caused  by  the  use  of 
liquor.  An  army  of  nearly  3,000  police  officers  finds 
constant  employment  because  of  the  use  of  intoxicating 
drinks.    A  New  York  journalist  puts  it  thus  : 

"We  have  one  million  population — one  half  native 
Americans,  the  other  half  born  in  foreign  countries,  of 
forty  different  nationalities.  Forty  thousand  kegs  of 
lager-bier  are  daily  consumed.  Fourteen  million  six 
hundred  thousand  kegs  a  year,  and  but  4,000,000  barrels 
of  flour.  The  meat  bill  of  the  city  was  $30,000,000  last 
year,  (1868)  and  the  liquor  bill  ovei  $68,000,000.  The 
amount  of  capital  invested  in  manufacturing  establish- 
ments is  $65,000,000 ;  invested  in  the  71  banks,  $90,000,- 
000 ;  in  the  liquor  businesr,  $200,000,000— $45,000,000 


ONE  HTTNDlffiD  MILES   OF  DMraiABDS.  157 

bTfflMn"  »""^.  "'»»''«"<"!««  and  banks.    There  have 

5,^f  f'  r°"^^°'"''"''«*«''°  «"J  disorderly  co™ 
duct  dunng  the  past  year,  and  there  are  92.272  persons 
in  institutions  under  the  cam  nf  fi,»  n  ■  ■  P*™™^ 
Public  Charities."  '  Comnussioners  of 

Snnn"*  *'\^  "'!,.''"5'  °*  ^^'^  ^"t.  7.000-some  say 

He  and  privarl'clVorXteX^^^^^^ 
tTcht^^r"'  *"?  ^''"^^' '"'  -l^~d'3^S 

StLerisX^niroJ-Tarofl^^^^^^ 
from  $40,000,000  to  $50,000  MO     '  """"'"""' 

onurches,  (and  three  mission   churches.)  ten    Sunday 
Schools  and  m.3s.on  houses,  while  the  Kn™sl.Z 

^L^tlCa^^^  ""'-  "'  ^-^™^  ^or.  th! 

^wmng  Jfaete-There  is  a  sufficient  quantity  of  fer 

o~t  ^r^'  "?r  ""^^  '°  '•'^  ^^t^i  Stat  t 
one  year,  to  fiU  a  canal  four  feet  deep,  fourteen  feet  wide 

and  one  hundred  and  twenty  miles  in  length      The 

hquor  saloons  and  hotels  of  New  York  city,  .f  plLced  ^ 

opposite  rows,  would  make  a  street  like  BrJ^wre  ete"  . 

mJes  m  length.    The  places  where  into^aZdrrta 

are  made  and  sold  in  this  countrv.  if  placed  i^  rows  k 

we  sllldM  -f  *'  "■"  ""®<=  *^'«  «''"■•«  also. 

rnetsadav  VT"^',  '",''''^  -"iH  and  a  thousand 
luneiaisaday.  If  the  drunkards  of  America  could  be 
placed  m  procession.  Hve  abreast,  they  would  me  an 

^c  ms !  Every  hour  in  the  night  the  heavens  are  lighted 
wit  the  mcendlary  torch  of  the  drunkard.  Every  ho™ 
m  the  day  the  earth  is  stained  with  the  blood  shed  b^ 


II 


It 


158 


THE    FOOT-PEINTS  OP  SATAN. 


drunken  assassins.  See  the  great  army  of  inebriates, 
more  than  half  a  million  strong,  marching  on  to  sure  and 
swift  destruction — filing  off  rapidly  into  the  poor-houses 
and  prisons,  and  up  to  the  scaffold,  and  yet  the  ranks 
are  constantly  filled  by  the  moderate  drinkei-s.  Who 
can  compute  the  fortunes  squandered,  the  hopes  crushed, 
the  hearts  broken,  the  homes  made  desolate  by  drunken- 
ness ? 

Nor  do  we  find  rehef  as  we  turn  to  other  principal 
cities  of  our  land.  Philadelphia  reports  her  4,169  drink- 
ing places,  and  a  proportionate  share  in  all  the  misery, 
disgrace,  demorahzation  and  unmerciful  expenditure  of 
time,  Kioney,  and  all  precious  substance.  And  Chica- 
go had  the  unenviable  pre-eminence,  while  yet  in  her 
youth,  of  supporting  2,300  licensed  saloons,  and  how 
many  unlicensed  dens  our  reporter  quoth  not.  One  to 
every  130  of  her  population,  and  one  to  every  twenty- 
six  of  her  male  adults ;  and  one  house  in  every  twenty- 
two  is  a  dram-shop.  There  are  spent  yearly  in  that 
city,  for  intoxicating  beverage  $15,000,000,  and  $5,- 
000,000  for  tobacco  and  cigars,  exceeding  by  far  the 
entire  aggregate  of  all  her  taxes,  city,  county  and  State  ; 
and  all  moneys  for  the  support  of  churches,  education 
and  charities.  And  what  is  the  return?  Nothing  but 
poverty,  hunger,  disgrace,  misery  and  vice. 

The  following  "Statement  of  the  Business  of  the 
Dead  Eiver  Eailroad  "  puts  the  thing  in  a  shape  worth 
repeating,  though  at  the  hazard  of  some  repetition : 

"  1. — i'rom  an  accurate  estimate  it  appears  that  this 
road  is  carrying  600,000  passengers  per  year,  mostly 
young  men,  down  to  the  condition  of  Commm  Drunk- 
ards. 

"2.— It  is  carrying  toward  destruction  multitudes  of 
the  brave  'jud  noble  young  men  in  our  aimy. 
"3. — ^It   has  carried  down  to  di;^,;ace,  poverty,  and 


THE  DEAD  BIVEB  BAILROAD.  jgg 

destruction,  many  of  the  most  talented  men  in  ih. 

*AU  the  crimes  on  earth  ^^  r.^^T  .  °'^    ^^y^'- 

soZ^cl^eUS' °'  ''"""r"'  "^'^ea  a™  per. 

to  moreen  UTOoT^rr''  T'*^''™^'  "^^^'ay 
whom  are  women  rn^-.r'''/  ^'^^  Proportion  of 
Almshouso  °'^*"''-    "  ^"''^  200.000  to  the 

persons  are  em^ed  ^tS^J^^^-'^'r. 
to  them  tie  number  employed  -n  S?  ?  .''*  ^^ 
sale  liquor  shops,  we  shSlTa™  Ittas"  5^  o'Sf  ""''*- 
employed  in  sending  theii-  feUowmnli^'^^"""^ 
graves.  "  mortals  to  premature 

delrl'^rdL'"""'  "r^'  '"•  "^-■7  ^d 

sensibihUes  and  ieep  Z^^T  \  """'    ^''^   "'-'J 
It  is  the    deadly   f^e'T'^all  f'  ''""'^  °' O"''- 

culture.     We  have  more  th^!  r™^   ""d   intellectual 
schooL  *"""  '""  dram-shops  to  one 


160 


THE    POOT-PRINTS  OP  SATAN. 


counters  of  retail  grog-shops  in  one  year,  poison  liquor 
to  the  value  of  $1,673,491,866. 

"  11. — This  terrible  business  against  the  laws  of  God 
and  man  is  rapidly  increasing." 

We  here  append  a  statistical  extract  that  presents  the 
demon  in  yet  another  guise  : 

"  Internal  Revenue  Statistics. — From  the  report  of  Com- 
missioner Delano,  we  learn  that  the  whole  number  of 
distilleries  registered  last  year  was  770,  with  a  spirit-pro- 
ducing capacity  of  910,661  gallons  every  twenty-four 
hours,  making  for  ten  months — the  period  usually  run — 
203,912,800  gallons.  The  revenue  collections  from  spi- 
rits alone  amounted  to  $66,581,699.18  ;  fermented  liquors, 
$6,319,126.90  ;  receipts  from  tobacco,  $31,360,707.88;  to- 
tal revenue,  $186,236,817.97  ;  thus  making  from  whiskey 
and  tobacco  nearly  one  half  of  the  entire  revenue.  The 
whole  amount  of  spirits  in  market  November  15, 1870, 
was  46,637,993  gallons,  of  which  36,619,968  gallons 
were  out  of  bond,  and  9,018,924  gallons  in  Government 
warehouses. 

"  The  following  are  the  approximate  receipts  for  the 
year  ending  June  30,  1871 : 

APPBOXIMATE  RECEIPTS  FOE  THE  FISCAL  YEAR  1871. 

Spirits. 

Bnmdy  distlUAd  flrom  apples,  grapes, ;    I  peaches $1,416,208.31 

Spirits   distilied  from  materials  other   than  apples,   grapes,   and 

P«ach?8 29,743,974.32 

DistUIerieB,  per  diem  tax  on 1,901,202.54 

Distillers'  special  tax „  6,681,346.75 

Eectifiers , ,  959,703.08 

Dealers,  retail  Uquor 3,661,676.61 

"       wholesale  liquor 2,149,916.03 

M*nufacturers  of  stills,  and  stills  and  worms  manufactured 6,823,16 

Stamps,  distillery  warehouse,  for  rectified  spiriU,  etc 769,369.01 

Excess  of  gaugera'faes 13,644.21 

TotalspiriU $46,282,463.28 


MANUPAOTURE  OP  BEEB.  jgt 

3V>tel  iplrlts 

W6,a82,M8.M 

fermented  Liquori. 

Fermented  liquor,,  tox  of  |i  per  Urrel  on 

Breweig- special  tax " $7,169,333,88 

Total  fermented  Uquo«3.'.' __M9^7 

Total 17.889.141.73 

$63.671,61S.M 

"  ^roni  the  above  facts  we  learn  somethina  ^f  +1.     • 
.     mense  power  of  a  froffi^  *i,  T     ^^^^^'^^^S  of  the  im- 

employed,  no  doubt  fotxceel  ttf  '""°"".'  "'  ""P'"^ 
uuimtiated.   The  benrTri!*  t      """"eP*'"™  of  the 

their  Grand  S^^^  :m1Z1:^ZT\'''  ^°"""■'' 

thev  act  as  the  great'conse^torof  .tTut'^ttt' 
beer  how  much  drunlrennoo.  tu  """rauty.    jjut  for 

we  say,  how  is  The  W^h  '  ^'"^^  *>" '    ^«  S^. 

door  o^nelthatTead,  f„  ™^  ^T'"^' '""'  «>«  ''™<i 

In  the  National  B^r  C~   if  h  '•"  °™  ^"'"^^ ' 
session  at  Newarii  jf '  i^    ^^^f  •  »*  'he'r  mnth  annual 

gave  the  foUoXst^Ws^;-       /""°-  ^^^''  '''^  P'-^^i^ent 

in  the  UnitTstaWs  in  tt  ''     "T '  "'  ""P""'  '"'^^'^ 

»56,856,638    vie  oflid  I"""*!"'!""  °'  ""^*  '^'1"». 
«34000,000    andlTOwljbthf  ">  S'-''«»g  barley, 

year,  752.853  acres  ofland^ewf  T!  r^  ""'  ?"«' 

of  the  crop     5  Bfls  «•« l       ,    ?  ,'^^™'*^  '°  ">e  culture 

«op.    5.685,6d3  barrels  of  beer  were  manufactured 


i 


162 


T.ay.    P00T-PBINT8  OF  SATAN. 


during  the  ytva  1'J68,  valued  at  $34,000,000,  being  an  in- 
creaHo  of  $2,000,000  over  that  of  1865.  The  total  amount 
of  capital  employed,  directly  and  indirectly,  in  the  manu- 
facture of  beer  was  Stated  to  be  $105,000,000,  giving  em- 
ployment to  56,063  men. 

Or  we  arrive  at  a  conclusion,  in  relation  to  our  great 
metropolis,  no  less  startling  by  another  mode  of  calcula- 
tion. The  direct  pecuniary  cost  of  the  article  consumed, 
though  enormous,  and  a  thousand  times  worse  than 
wasted,  would  seem  but  the  smaller  item  in  the  cost  of 
intemperance.  The  loss  of  labor,  as  already  intimated, 
the  damage  done  to  the  industry  of  a  people,  to  say 
nothing  of  morals,  is  a  yet  greater  item.  The  same  ex- 
perienced statistician  shall  again  furnish  us  data.  No 
one  has  had  better  opportunities  for  a  knowledge  of  facts 
than  Mr.  Van  Meter,  of  the  Howard  Mission.  In  a  re- 
cent report  he  says : 

"  I  have  with  great  care  prepared  the  following  state- 
ment :    It  is  established  upon  the  most  trustworthy  offi- 
cial reports,  much  of  which  will  be  found  in  Dyer's  Re- 
port, recently  published— the  most  astounding  document 
I  ever  read.   I  beUeve  them,  and  therefore  present  them. 
Examine  them,  and  if  you  are  not  satisfied,  call  on  me  at 
Howard  Mission  and  Home  for  Little  Wanderers,  No. 
40  New  Bowery,  and  I  will  furnish  you  with  the  proof. 
There  are  in  this  city  6,203  licensed  places  selling  intoxi- 
cating liquor.     Superintendent  Kennedy  placed  police- 
men at  223  of  them  for  24  consecutive  hours,  and  this 
is  the  result :    Each  rum-hole  receives  a  'daily  average  of 
134  visits,  making  an  aggregate  of  697,202   per  day, 
4,183,212  per  week,  or  218,224,226   visits  in  one  year  1 
Each  visit  averages  at  least  fifteen  minutes.    This  gives 
us  5,455,605  days  of   ten  hours  each,  or   1,848  years. 
At  present  wages,  each  one,  if  sober  and  industrious, 
would  earn  $1  per  day,  or  $5,455,605  in  one  year.    But 


BTATI8TI08  OP  NEW  YORK  OlTr. 


...    .  '-'  163 

this  IS  not  all  the  lost  time  Ti.«  r 
persons  is  occupied  by  each  ^oJlZ  t '^  'T  *^'^ 
Jhis  gives  us  16,609  persons  «i?.  ^"^  '^'  ^«^t- 
city.  At$l  per  day  for  ZiT?^  ""  ""^^^  ^  ^*'g« 
Sunday)  $4.8^0.008^^^ an "L "'  ^^^,  ^"«^  including 
wasted  time  by'selL  and  d^kr ^^  '''''''''''  '^ 
carry  on  all  the  Sundav  Ih^.i  ""^  snfficient  to 

Bible  societ.s  in  a^^^^^^  ^-t  and 

of  the  cost  of  rum     P™m  H,«  ""'"  fraotion 

foUo^^g:    Each  ™„  ioT«         '■"' '"""^ ''^  •'"e  the 

"■«.l'ung.y,  hopeless  Httk  Itfl  Trf '  "' ^'''™'- 
compen«ate  fo,-  loss  of  oharaelerH  ?'  '""  """'d 
rumed  husbands,  uives,  sons  Ind  dau!hT'''%''''PP'''«^''' 
senoe  of  every  ray  of  li»ht  j„'"f.''''"8^'e«-for  the  ab- 

«.me?  8.m,U:histfined  :  t  L"^  T"  *» 
be  comparatively  a  small  matter.  But  the  '^-  "  """''* 
luged  with  rum.    The  rumselir.  j  .   * '""'°''  ^^  de- 

infamy  and  woe  many  o7o"r  ^T  '"™  ">  "^^P™' 
a-d  bravest  generals,  ourmo"  rtin^^ri"  ''*''^'"«'' 
yers.  ministers,  artists  and  If^nd^^r'' '"''«"'' '*^^ 
stroyer  lurks  around  our  dJ^l  ^  I"'"™'    ^''^  de- 

pose dearer  than  lifer^ -•       ^  ™'"''"8  '»  -».  «.d 

be?n'sS  *^'  '""""^  -  -"^-'tozy  „,  ^,^,  ^ 

"Statistics    of   New    Yn^-h    n-*       m. 
New  York  eit/  is  l^^Xmt^^'^^.r^^'-  "' 
im  grog-shops  and  470  chnr^t         t^    ^  ^^  "'"'»' 
»ions  of  all  iin'ds.    Iw  m  wioS  r'^'  *"''  '"■'" 

^p^Hofthep^o^^— r=hKr;opt 


ItfT 


164 


THE    FOOT-PRINTS  OF  SATAN. 


lation  are  from  foreign  countries,  representing  forty  dif- 
ferent nationalities.  There  were  18,000  marriages  31,- 
000  births,  24,601  deaths  during  the  year. 

'•  17,000  emigrants  land  per  month.  418  Sabbath- 
schools,  with  about  130,000  in  regular  attendance.  About 
40,000  children  out  of  the  public  schools ;  163,493  chil- 
dren in  the  city. 

"Local  taxes,  $23,300,000;  federal  taxes,  $50,000,000. 
The  mayor  estimates  2,000,000  gallons  of  domestic  spi- 
rits and  600,000  gallons  of  foreign  wines  ;  100,000  gal- 
lons of  foreign  spirits;  400,000  kegs  of  fermented  liquor; 
60,000  dozens  of  champagne,  are  consumed.  The  bare 
t&x  on  these  amounts  to  $2,000,000.  The  poUce  arrests 
last  year  were  75,692,  of  which  34,696  were  for  intoxi- 
cation and  disorderly  conduct ;  141,780  persons  were  ac- 
commodated with  lodgings  at  the  police  station ;  8,840  is 
the  average  number  of  persons  continually  in  asylums, 

hospitals,  etc. 

"  It  is  estimated  that  at  the  last  season  the  26,870  visi- 
tors at  Saratoga  Springs  spent  $1,000  per  day  at  the 
wine-room,  and  $800  at  the  bar  for  liquors,  making 
nearly  $200,000  for  the  season." 

Nor  does  Pennsylvania  present  a  fairer  record  than 
New  York.  So  lucrative  is  her  liquor  business,  that  her 
government  received  in  a  single  year  an  income  of  $317,- 
742  for  licenses ;  a  handsome  sum  indeed.  But,  for  the 
same  year,  what  did  the  traffic  cost  her?  For  one  item 
she  had  24,000  criminals  and  paupers,  four  fifths  of 
whom  are  made  so  by  strong  drink.  These  cost  the 
State  $2,260,000  a  year,  or  more  than  six  dollars  to 
each  voter,  and  seven  times  the  income  for  licenses.  A 
dead  loss  this,  of  nearly  $2,000,000.  And  this  is  but 
one  of  the  lesser  items.  The  cost  of  the  liquors,  the  loss 
of  time  and  labor,  and  the  damage  done  to  all  sorts  of 
industrial  pursuits,  swell  the  amount  beyond  calculation. 


WHAT  GREAT  BRITAIN  PAT8.  jgg 

In  Pennsylvania  thore  are   7ft  «nn 
^        870  school  teachers     Cost  oTf      T'""''"'  *^^  !«'' 

the  greatest  item  of  oU.     We  mTn  .r  ,    ""=°™' 

"nation  of  a  people,         '  "'*  »>'"''<"•'''  d«moral- 

with  wine,  and  Germ,.r.,,     -lu  i  -France  flows 

O"  S„at  ^eerotusT  S 1^  trt'eilltT"^  T^' 
dred  and  fiftv  mn  «oi„  ,  "®  °'  one  hun- 

.quare  in  ^Ta"  t"  portil'':  "^  "T"  '°  °"«  "''^ 
from  the  hard  earnLs  of  the  ^°'',''°"'  '"""''»  '"'«> 
»2,250,000  a  year  P'°P'*  "ot  less  than 

pe'tJtoeres'lfXltVr  °^'';  ^-"^^  ^- 
r  t:vr:pt  f '"  r-- "^^^^^^^^ 


1:3 


Ki 


166  THE    FOOT-PRINTS  OF  SATAN. 

defray  the  cost  of  her  drinking  habits  but  two  days.  As 
some  one  has  said,  "  forty  sovereigns  placed  on  each 
verse  of  the  Bible,  would  not  represent  the  money 
spent  in  Great  Britain  for  intoxicating  drinks  every  two 

days." 

The  thirty-two  million  of  people  in  Great  Britain  are 
said  to  consume  annually  26,000,000  barrels  of  beer. 

New  phases  of  the  same  tale  are  presented  by  differ- 
ent ones  as  they  attempt  to  draw  the  sad  portrait.  We 
givo  other  English  statistics.  The  following  figures  are 
furnished  by  reliable  authorities :  jeil2,000,000  are  an- 
nually spent  for  incoxicating  liquor,  employing  186,096 
persons  in  its  sale,  adding  the  indirect  cost,  such  as  the 
loss  of  labor,  destruction  of  property,  public  and  private 
expense  of  pauperism,  criminals,  police,  etc.,  arising 
from  drinking  habits,  and  it  makes  ar  aggregate  of 
£200,000,000.  There  is  one  pubUc-house  to  every  182 
of  the  population,  and  one  in  every  34  homes ;  1,281,- 
651  persons  were  on  the  books  of  Parish  Union  as  pau- 
pers, January  1, 1870.  The  capital  invested  is  estimat- 
ed at  X117,000,  and  the  imperial  revenue  derived  from 
the  trade  last  year  was  X24:,820,000,  or  more  than  one 
third  of  the  whole  revenue. 

The  Westminster  Review  says :  "  Drunkenness  is  the 
curse  of  England—a  curse  so  great  that  it  far  eclipses 
every  other  calamity  under  which  we  suffer.  One  hun- 
,  dred  and  fifty  thousand  workmen  go  to  bed  drunk  every 
Saturday  night  in  London  alone.  It  is  impossible  to 
exaggerate  the  evils  of  drunkenness." 

In  "  The  Vital  Statistics  of  Strong  Drink."  the  Eev. 
D.  Burns  exhibits  the  annual  loss  of  life  in  the  United 
Kingdom  as  64,263. 

By  intemperance  directly 27,050 

By  its  Bequences,  (as  disease,  accident,  etc.,) 20,251 

By  limited  drinking ^'^^a 


WHAT  IBANOE  PAYS. 


167 


There    are    353,270    licensed    shops    in  the  Uni*.^ 
Kingdom,  and  the  estimated  amoun?  spL  for^^ 

i:^Zd:U7;Xi^^^^^  i-i-d,  ^,773,710,  and 

pamng.  Hon.  E  C.  Delavan  estimates  the  total  value 
of  intoxicating  drink  in  that  country,  during  the  year 
1865,  to  be  $1,516,546,000.    According  to  the  fXwW 

wi"  ^""'o^'  -"""astonding  the  cheapness  of  wine 
b  andy  ,s  one  of  the  staple  drinks.     The  annual  product 
of  wme  IS  oyer  900,000,000  gallons     From  thi«  T 
are   manufactured   23,600,000   gaSons    0?^^' 'l         . 

ctrij'Tr  «*--«"'  xtt™:^ 

iTeOOOrnf         '  ""■  ^•'^■'^  8""™-;  brandy, 
lb,bOO,000,  or  an  average  of  twenty-four  giUons  for  I 

ery  man  woman  and  child  of  the  w-lattn     C^dinll 
w  u     ZP"'""  °"g"ate  in  the  use  of  wine'    Dr 
of  the  ZoUyerein,  according  to  offical  returns,  there  is  a 

Ci  TaT  t  n  "'  ''.''•""*•"«'  -J"-'^  o'   ^i— 
linl     f   /„        "'  ™'  ^""^'^'J  """i  twenty-two  mil- 

CJLZZ.-'^'"''  ''''"'  ^-  '''o  -™^^  of 

Tw'f%^'' />'.''*  intemperance  does  not  stop  here 

accoui^t.    And  of  course  three  fourths  of  the  taxes  paid 
for  ja.ls,  cnmmal  courts,  and  prisons  are  tLetTaid  to 

must  be  set  to  the  same  account.    Consequently,  when  a 
taxpayer  pays  a  tax  of  forty  doUars,  he  Z  J^^^ 


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THE  FOOT-PRINTS    OF  SATAN. 


'in 


tion  of  knowing  that  thirty  dollars  is  a  tax  paid  to  intoxi- 
cating drinks ;  and  to  support  a  class  of  men,  a  thou- 
sand times  worse  than  useless,  who  traffic  in  these  drinks. 
It  is  one  of  the  strange  things  of  our  world  that  a  peo- 
ple should  supinely  submit  to  pay  such  a  tax  to  a  loathe- 
s(jme  vice.  And  why  do  they?  Simply  because  a 
worthless  part  of  the  community  wish  to  drink,  and  an- 
other portion  as  worthless,  wish  the  profit  of  the  traffic. 
These  will  feel  aggrieved  if  you  iuterfere  with  their  prac- 
tice or  their  trade. 

No  one  need  be  ignorant  of  facts  here.  As  a  specimen, 
we  have  the  result  of  a  personal  and  careful  examination 
of  all  the  prisons,  county  jails  and  poor-houses  in  the 
State  of  New  York,  made  by  Mr.  Chipman,  a  citizen  of 
Albany.  We  will  take  a  single  County  (Queens)  as  a 
specimen : 

Whole  number  committed  to  jail  in  one  year  70,  tem- 
perate, 9  ;  doubtful  6  ;  intemperate,  55.  Of  the  6  doubt- 
ful cases  two  were  vagrants,  probably  intemperate,  and 
one  an  Irish  woman.  Whole  number  in  poor-house,  31  ; 
not  from  intemperance,  2 ;  doubtful,  0 ;  intemperate,  29. 
The  above  vouched  for  by  by  the  proper  authorities. 

Here  we  have  58  out  of  70  in  the  prison  and  29  •  of  the 
poor-house  as  the  victims  of  intemperance. 

Cases  like  the  following,  which  came  under  Mr.  Chip- 
man's  observation  at  the  Police  office  in  Albany,  are  not 
uncommon  in  the  annals  of  Intemperance : 

"  The  wife  of  a  very  respectable  mechanic  applied  to  be 
sent  with  her  three  children  to  the  alms-house.  The  hus- 
band had  been  in  good  business — received  $1.50  per  day 
and  employment  enough.  But  for  some  weeks  he  had 
absented  himself  from  his  shop  ;  spent  his  time  in  drink- 
ing and  his  earnings  and  credit  to  pay  for  it.  His  family 
are  now  gone  to  be  supported  by  the  public  from  the  earn- 
ings of  the  sober  and  industrious.     The  vender  of  ardent 


INSTEAD  OP  FOOD  A  POISON.  Jgj 

fro.  thoea„i.g.„f  the  sobe; anlltd tSr  "wMe":!!" 
traffic  bnngs  a  shilling  into  the  pocket  ofT  }  * 
subtracts  a  doUar  from  the  pockeW  th!  K  !  J""'"''  " 
ing  community.  '^  ""^  '""'^'''  hardwork- 

A  justice  of  the  peace  and  jaU  commissioner  of  Tn,„„f 
Canada,  says  that  nme  out  of  ten  of  H,»Z.  Toronto, 

19  out  of  20  of  the  fen,»l.  i,       u       ,      '^  Pn»oners,  and 
toating  linuo's     In  t^r  T.  ^'°''«^'  ""^'^  ^y  in- 

soners  in°the  IX  of  cllda  I2  0  o'T T  ''f  ?"" 
there  by  intoiicati«g  toto         '        °'  ^'"""  '"°"g" 

thif  eta'lirl'ir  T  '°  ''PP™-'"-*^  the  cost  of 

findthf-foiw^rsfarth  ri'r?^.'°'^'«"  P--  - 

factureofstrongl^S/rea  :t'':r  ^  "^™- 
ployed  (in  Enelandt  in  rt,         ,.  *  '™'*  ^'«  ^n"- 

■  1.000,000  acTto^^trkv  ™''°°  1  ""^'^  '"■^ 
drink.  If  the  land,  frnplvedin  ""  ""°  ''^™8 
above  process  of  de'strctn  t  ^tfr?  ^"° '"'  *'"' 
the  production  of  grain  for  fond  Tf  ?^  W^Pmted  to 
a  four-pound  loaf  for  each  oHh:!  ^^  ^  f ''^  """"  «"» 
man  beings  in  the  world  Or^^  T""^  """''^'^  °^  l'^- 
perweekfoeachf  mXfu  G?ea  bT^^^^  T  '^^  '""^^ 
000  bushels  of  barley  alnSl'fM  ^-^^'^  ^°''^-- 

carrots  and  pota^anre  et  twHt'^"'  "t''^' 
stroyed  in  making  gin,  whiske;  aid  Engl'h  rSr""  '" 

I»  our  own  countey  mtrfhaf"  ^Tt ""'  ^"'«^"'=- 
reinvested  in /er:ir:-rd1p:r 


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THE  FOOT-PRINTS  OF  SATAN. 


#  i 


t", 


'f^Sg-'         irl 


liquors,  whicii  employs  5,500  men.  And  more  than  50,000,- 
000  bushels  of  grain,  (including  rye,  corn  and  barley,)  and 
vast  quantities  of  apples  are  yearly  perverted  in  the  manu- 
facture of  intoxicating  drinks  :  and  at  present  prices,  at  a 
cost,  and  dead  loss  to  the  nation,  of  scarcely  less  than 
$60,000,000. 

And  there  is  yet  another  item  to  be  added  to  this  fear- 
ful expeniture.  It  is  as  we  have  said  the  loss  of  industry  to 
our  nation.  The  wealth  and  strength  of  a  nation  lies  very 
much  in  the  amount  of  her  productive  labor.  Let  us  see 
how  tlie  "  sin"  of  Intemperance  "  reigns  unto  death  " 
here.  The  intemperate  man  defrauds  the  community  in 
a  great  degree  of  his  labor. 

And  besides  this  the  use  of  his  property  is  nearly  lost 
to  society.  Instead  of  a  useful  man,  he  is  a  sot — which 
means,  he  is  good  for  nothing  at  home  or  aboard.  If  he 
find  not  an  early  gjave  he  will  become  as  poor  and  beg- 
garly as  he  is  worthless. 

It  is  estimated  that  there  is  a  loss  of  life  to  the  nation 
of  twelve  years'  average,  on  each  drunkard  :  which  is  a 
dead  loss  to  the  United  (States,  for  every  generation  of 
her  600,000  drunkai'ds,  (at  only  50  cents  per  day  each)  of 
$1,126,800,000— or  an  annual  of  $93,400,000.  But  this 
curtailment  of  twelve  years  of  life  on  each  drunkard 
is  perhaps  a  less  loss  to  productive  industry  than  the  loss 
of  labor  while  he  lives.  He  is  not  only  a  lounger  and 
idler  in  a  great  degree  himself,  but  it  requires  many 
more  to  help  him  abuse  and  squander  time.  And  we 
should  probably  be  within  the  mark  if  we  were  to  add 
another  $90,000,000  for  this  item.  And  to  this  we  must 
add  the  time  of  distillers,  trajO&ckers,  retailers  e^d  all  sorts 
of  loungers  and  loafers,  who  are  a  sort  of  camp-^v-llowers 
to  his  Alchohc  Majesty,  and  we  have  a  waste  of  industry 
fearfully  ominous.  » 

Again,  it  has  been  ascertained  to  be  the  opinion  of 


THE  RECORD  OP  A  SINGLE  CITY.  I71 

commercial  men,   that  at  least  three  fo„rlT,«     ,    i.- 
wrecks,  loss  of  property  an^  ^-     ?  ^^  ""^  ^^^P" 

tracedtothe  too'^Z  use  of  in^'^^^^^^^^^  "' T'  ^^^  ^« 
the  same  is  true  of  steamblf  '^*"^^^.^*"^g  ^"^k«-     And 

stage  coach  a'dden^lt L"  Jn'^^^^^^  ^^^ 

we  are  sure  to  meet    he  raVal^^^^  "!f  ^^  -^^^ 

Take  a  single  citv  an  ^  fi,  !    ?     ,     ^^  '^'■®  Destroyer. 

the  ta.  ;:tt:tZs^:^  ^  "^'^  """■  ^^  ^'•^^^ 

The  number  of  X  ^^^  *^«  Pastors  of  that  city : 

year  there  were  n>a„„faot.^  ?  i^  ^tf^t  igoTf /"' 
reJs  of  beer,  upon  which  tax  was  nldd  o.^'  *  "" 
cost  of  liquor  retailed  aud  drari/^fwaA  LT'^"'! 
year  IS  estimated  at  $5  000000  "  f  1  ,  "  P*'' 
1.261  porous  were  coS^;  i^^Zltf^Jt  """ 
gregate  mcareeratious  amountin.  to  ab^ut  ^^r""^  '^■ 
five  s..ths  of  these  comuntmenl«  "were  te  re"  U  'T  ' 

branch  of  SusfrvrTT""'  '^  '«"  "''<'»«''  «W 
Prising,  pltrt^-^^^^trj^^:---.^  -toZ 
l^bor  of  its  victims  to  an"imtrramtnr::dt'' 
t! -ousand  ways  occasioning  loss  which  it  k  ,m„  . ,  . 
fBtimate.  Let  Uie  history  of  a  siatl«  .  '^  ""'  '° 
«hop,  which  has  been  at  il  wort  h7L  t'  ^°«- 

and  correctly  ascertained,  and  fwoddl  alll'  ^  ^^ 

-%.t;u:t^t:siir::tit:f;osS 


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THE  FOOT-PRINTS  OF  SATAN. 


of  hundreds  of  thousands  of  these  withering  engines  of 
ruin  ? 

A  little  article  in  the  Young  Reaper,  entitled  "A 
Year's  Work  of  Dram-selling,"  is  mvltum  in  parvo : 

"  Carefully  eompLled  statistics  show  that  sixty  thou- 
sand lives  are  annually  destroyed  by  intemperance  in  the 
United  States. 

"  One  hundred  thousand  men  and  women  are  yearly 
sent  to  prison  in  consequence  of  strong  drink. 

"Twenty  thousand  children  are  yearly  sent  to  the 
poor-house  for  the  same  reason. 

"  Three  hundred  murders  are  another  of  the  yearly 
fruits  of  ir  if  iuperance. 

"  Four  hundred  suicides  follow  these  fearful  catalogues 
of  miseries. 

"  Two  hundred  thousand  oiphans  are  bequeathed  each 
year  to  private  and  public  charity. 

'*  Two  hundred  million  dollars  are  yearly  expended  to 
produce  this  shocking  amount  of  crime  and  misery,  and 
as  much  more  is  lost  from  the  same  cause." 

But  the  expense  of  intoxicating  drinks  on  the  part  of 
the  consumer,  and  the  consequent  waste  of  property  and 
damage  to  industry,  and  downright  demoralization  of 
the  practice  of  drinking,  is  but  one  count  in  the  matter. 
We  are  to  bring  into  the  account,  (though  with  less  sym- 
pathy,) the  expense — at  least  the  moral  loss  and  waste, 
on  the  part  of  the  manufacturer  and  vender.  It  almost  in- 
evitably demoraliises  the  man  at  once,  and  puts  him  on 
the  descending  grade,  and  is  sure  to  entail  on  his  posterity 
a  condition  worse  than  his  own,  so  that  the  last  state  of 
that  man  is  worse  than  the  first. 

We  look  perhaps  in  vain  to  find  a  business  so  connect- 
ed (perhaps  inseparably  corn  acted)  with  deception, 
counterfeiting  and  fraud,  as  the  liquor  buf 'ue^s.  So  com- 
mon are  spurious  liquors — the  sheerest  couii'^rfeits,  and 


ADULTERATION  OF  LIQUORS.  ^73 

genuine  article  is.  Take  forl^lt^tT"  ■'''""  *« 
to  be  imported  wi-es.  and  ndge  from  t^^fon"'  ""'^'^ 
ment,  how  little  chanoo  fi,:  ,  ""* 'o'lomng  state- 
article  paid  C  °'""°"  *''^  ?»«=''''«='  has  of  getting  the 

"The  United  States  are  reoressnto/q  t„  i  ..  , 
consumers  Of  champagne  in  r^orH^a^^^^^^^^^  '"^^^'* 
tion  per  annum  is  estimated  to  h.  ^'  ,1  ^°°«"^P- 
The  whole  champa^e  cull  I  ?  "^'^^^  ^^«^«*«- 
acres,  and  the  ZoS  o  t"  1  T^*"^^'^  *^«"-^^ 
tion  is  ten  million  bottles  ""J^^^^^^^f  ^^^d  for  exporta- 

eighty  thousand  baskets.  tCrZe  0(^,1™     ''^''™<' 
this  country  for  imnort^^  "^'^ore,  ol  the  wine  drank  in 

amount  e,ll  toTtfo    TuXoUrer'^^ 
district  for  the  world "  ^  champagne 

pho^l.1^rilfae2Tns!lt--^';  ^"°'- 

othror^ei-ii:  w-  r^^^ 

minal  praoti  eTtle  W  tT      r  ""^^  *«  »" 
ation  of  liquors  and  thT^f  '"  *'  S^"""""'  ^d^'ter- 

articles.    HeTt'ates  ttt     f f  !t  ''°'"="'"'°"'  "*  «P"™»B 

YorkCnstfmdtrnt      \T""  "'  '""^  ^ew 
casks  of  brandy    35 rZ       ""P'"'**'°»  "^  20-000  half 

twenty  or  t^iri^'^J^.^^Zl' ^J^  ''ff^ 
and  counfy  dealers  as  genuine  Frenl  Tj,.  '"'^^^ 


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THE  FOOT-PRINTS  OF  SATAN. 


fourths  of  all  foreign  brandies  and  gin  are  imported  for 
the  express  purpose  of  adulteration.  The  Custom-house 
books  show  that  one  man  who  has  sold  thousands  of  gal- 
lons of  a  certain  kind  of  foreign  liquor,  has  not  imported 
more  than  five  pipes  in  five  years.  He  gives  a  list  of  the 
vegetable  and  mineral  poisons  and  acids  that  are  em- 
ployed in  this  work.  He  also  states  that  the  greater  por- 
tion of  the  foreign  brandies  that  are  imported  are  whis- 
key sent  from  this  country  to  be  returned  with  a  French 
brand  as  genuine  French  liquors." 

Or  would  we  read  a  yet  more  disgusting  page  in  the 
history  of  this  vice  of  "  so  frightful  mien,"  we  may  read 
it  in  the  annals  of  the  present  "  Whiskey  Frauds ;" 
which  had  assumed  such  gigantic  dimensions,  and  pre- 
sented so  barefaced  a  front  of  dishonesty  and  fraud  that 
even  drunken  consumers  seemed  to  blush  for  shame,  and 
government  officials  could  no  longer  be  bribed  to  silence. 
Not  satisfied  with  the  ruinous  workings  of  their  vile  traf- 
fic on  their  beleaguered  dupes,  while  they  were  themselves 
rioting  on  their  immoderate  gains,  they  perpetrated,  as  if 
by  concert,  or  common  consent,  one  of  the  most  stupen- 
dous frauds  against  government,  which,  in  this  age  of 
frauds  have  been  perpetrated.  Discern  ye  not  the  foot- 
prints of  the  great  enchanter  here? 

Comparisons  often  give  the  most  striking  comprehen- 
sion of  numbers.  The  clergy  in  the  United  States  are 
said  to  cost  $12,000,000 ;  lawyers,  $70,000,000 ;  criminals, 
$40,000,000;  rum,  wholesale,  $680,000,000— retail,  $1,500,- 
000,000  ;  with  the  loss  of  time  and  industry  included,  on 
600,000  drunkards,  or  1,000,000  more  or  less  fatally  ad- 
dicted to  strong  drink ;  and  an  annual  loss  of  60,000  lives 
— and  many  of  these  men  capable  of  contributing  the 
most  essentially  to  the  industry  and  general  prosperity 
of  the  country. 
As  a  confirmation  of  foregoing  statements  we  quote  a 


BUr  AND  LICENSE  FEES. 


176 


paragraph  from  Dr.  Edward  Young,  chief  of  the  Bureau 
of  Statistics.  "During  the  last  fiscal  jear  the  receit>^! 
from  retail  liquor-dealers  who  paid  $25  each  for  license 
amounted  to  $3  650,000,  indicating  that  there  were  146 
000  retailers  of  liquors  in  the  United  States.  By  includ- 
ing  those  who  escaped  paying  license  fees,  estimated  at 
4,000,  the  number  is  mcreasd  to  150,000,  who,  on  an  aver- 

ifoi  000  OOO^'^T'  "°^^'  ^'  ^^^"°^«  -«^'  -ki4 
cientfv  !;  ?;•  ''  T  '''*'^'  ^^'''  figures  are  suffi! 
drfLn         7'^  T^  "''^  ^"  exaggeration.     Six  hun- 

comprehend  this  vast  sum,  which  is  worse  than  wasted 
every  year.  It  would  pay  for  100,000,000  barrr  of 
flour,  averaging  two  and  a  half  barrels  of  flour  to  every 
man,  woman  and  child  in  the  country.  This  flour  li 
placed  m  wagons  ten  barrels  in  each,  would  require  io.- 

extendTiKt'V"'"^"^  ^^^^^  ^°  each,  woulk 

extend  45  455  miles,  nearly  twice  round  the  earth,  or 

^IdTake  lOo""''  "  ""  ^""  "^'^  '^  ^'  -*-'" 
would  take  100  persons  one  year  to  count  them.    If 

spread  on  the  surface  of  the  cround  so  tlinf  ««  c 
Should  be  left  between  the  noL.Tht  iV^lZZZ 

Httlf  n  .  '/"'""^"^  ^  parallelogram  of  six  by  a 
httle  over  five  and  a  quarter  miles,  the  walk  round  it  be! 
mg  more  than  twenty-two  and  a  half  miles  " 

And  a  word  does  the  same  statistician  here  add  on 
he  opium  question  :     "  The  influx  of  Chinese  "  savs  he 

smokrng,  the  importation  of  which  for  the  last  year  was 
315,121  pounds,  of  the  value  of  $1,926  915  " 

fhrf'ti'''''^"^'-''^xT''^^^"°^«^^"Sg^«^«'r^^'e^  the  fact 
tha  there  are  m  New  York  city  *  about  5,000  confirmed 
users  of  opium  in  its  various  forms  of  sulphate  of  mor- 


•  From  the  New  lork  Canumrdal  Advertiser. 


176 


THE  FOOT-PIUuNTS  OF  SATAN. 


phia,  laudanum  and  the  crude  root.  The  ranks  of  these 
inebriates  embraces  all  classes  of  society,  from  the  lady 
of  Fifth  Avenue  to  John  Chinaman  of  Baxter  Street. 
The  drug  is  sold  by  many  respectable  druggists  over 
the  counter  vi'ithout  a  physician's  prescription,  but  as  a 
general  thing,  only  to  known  and  regular  customers  who 
have  become  thoroughly  used  to  it .  Sometimes  a  stran- 
ger can  get  it,  but  it  is  only  because  his  appearance  un- 
mistakably indicates  that  he  is  an  old  opium-eater.  '  You 
can  always  tell  'em,'  tsaid  a  worthy  up-town  druggist. 
'  There's  something  about  their  expression,  about  their 
complexion  and  eyes,  and  about  their  nerveless  manner, 
that  tell  on  'em  at  once.' 

"  Sometimes  the  unfortunate,  brought  to  a  low  ebb  by 
the  cravings  of  the  horrible  appetite,  will  steal  all  the 
laudanum  he  can  find  in  the  store.  A  respectably- 
dressed  lady  Avus  recently  detected  by  a  clerk  in  a  drug 
store  on  Fifth  Avenue  hiding  a  bottle  of  laudanum  in 
her  dress.  The  devilish  appetite  destroys  all  moral 
sense  as  surely  as  it  ruins  all  the  physical  faculties. 

"  The  opium  in  its  crude  state  is  sometimes  bought 
and  greedily  eaten  on  the  spot.  '  They  chew  it,'  says  one 
druggist,  •  as  you  would  chew  wax.'  The  crude  opium, 
however,  is  not  the  favorite  form  of  the  drug  •  among  the 
confirmed  eaters.  It  is  used  more  generally  both  for  eat- 
ing and  smoking  by  the  Chinese  pagans  in  the  dark  cel- 
lars of  the  Sixth  Ward  than  by  any  other  class  of  cus- 
tomers. It  takes  longer  than  morphine  to  afi'ect  the  sys- 
tem, and  the  principal  desire  of  the  inebriate  is  to  betake 
himself  to  that  gorgeous  land  of  fancies,  that  delicious 
garden  of  perfect  rest  to  which  morphine  at  once  trans- 
ports him.  Sulphate  of  morphia  is  the  favorite  form  of 
the  drug,  and  it  is  in  that  state  that  our  New  York  devo- 
tees mainly  use  it.  Some  of  the  doses  taken  by  the 
'  sots '  are  enough  to  kill  half  a  dozen  men  innocent  of 


OrTtI„,  CHLORAL  AND  TOBACCO.    ,  jyy 

the  habitual  use  of  it     n»    i  j 

I'eBtore.    An  old  ge-.tleln    CtuT.,"     "'"^'^""■'S 
for  his  extreme  age  i»  a«i/;  I  , ""  '"  "•'»  «''y 

Chloral  drmking,  XS,^"J^  ?K  ''?«"°""  "'""''"t- 
«edi«g  absintheLi^ra^f  ^  "j^  physician, ;,  s^pg,. 
the  better  olas^;,  "^^  inl  '""'l"  ''™"''«"»  """-g 
".oredangeronsl^onlrfeZ  r'"'"'-"'  ™«  "'""^ 

beat  evid'enoT'e^^the  eZ"tlT'r°'  ""'  ''"■«  ^  ^^ 
production  haa  become  '^  of   he  ,"''.'■    \^^"'^  "' 
dustries,  and  it  is  sold  by  th„  f        ^'^^  "^'"^""l  »- 
that  one  German  Zmi!t  manl  t    "'"'  ^'^'''^  ^fi™' 
ton  a  week.    The^^^        S      "°' "<*  ^^^  half  a 
ehloral  is  the  new  an^"t^  ^^'*'-  '"y'-'    -raking 
^omen,  and  is  ddrat ITst "  ""«' P"««"'«ly  amonf 
The  drug  is  kep  Tth^^roT'.  ""^  "^  •"-"<" 
those  who  begin  its  use  oZn  dressmg-oases,  and 

they  pass  thel  lives  taort  !^"  "J  '^'"'"«'  '»  »  ^^ 
Chloral  drunkards  wm  ^on  b„  '""'^."'"''  «t"pelaction. 
the  species."  ""  ''*  *"  admitted  variety  of 

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tobacco  and  cigars  in  the  United  States  at  about  $8,000,- 
000,  giving  to  each  individual  consumer  an  average  of  11 
pounds  and  14  ounces  of  tobacco,  and  167  cigars,  the 
basis  of  calculation  being  the  95,000,000  pounds  of 
manufactured  tobacco  and  1,333,000,000  of  cigars  on 
which  taxes  were  collected  during  the  fiscal  year  ending 
with  June  last.  The  average  would  be  larger  if  the  to- 
bacco manufactured  and  sold  illegally  were  added. 
From  other  estimates,  Mr.  Elimball  reaches  the  conclu- 
sion that  the  tax  on  tobacco  has  in  no  wise  diminished 
its  consumption,  and  that  the  fact  that  the  government 
collected  last  year  taxes  on  upwfeird  of  95,000,000  pounds 
of  manufactured  tobacco,  shows  that  the  taxes  are  very 
closely  collected,  amounting  in  all  to  $25,000,000.  And 
we  may  add  a  word  on 

The  Effects  of  Smoking. — ^A  French  physician  has  in- 
vestigated the  effects  of  smoking  on  thirty-eight  boys, 
between  the  ages  of  nine  and  fifteen,  who  were  addicted 
to  the  habit.  Twenty-seven  presented  distinct  symp- 
toms of  nicotine  poison.  In  twenty-two  there  were  se- 
rious disorders  of  the  circulation,  indigestion,  dullness 
of  intellect,  and  a  marked  appetite  for  strong  drinks  ;  in 
three  there  was  heart  affection ;  in  eight  decided  deteri- 
oration of  blood ;  ten  had  disturbed  sleep,  and  four  had 
ulceration  of  the  mucous  membrane  of  the  mouth. 

Some  one  calculated  that  only  the  working  classes  in 
Great  Britain  pay  for  alcoholic  beverages  X60,000,000, 
or  $300,000,000  annually,  a  tenth  part  of  which  would 
suffice  to  carry  forward  the  operations  of  all  the  benev- 
olent societies  in  the  world.  Last  year  England  paid  to 
the  government  a  tax  on  spirits  of  $70,000,000,  and  scarce- 
ly more  than  one  tenth  that  sum  to  all  her  benevolent 
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AN  ESTABLISHMENT. 

•  Out' ^National  Ctirac— "It  is  iPlimatcd  ly  competent  authority  that  60,000 
lives  Hit'  aiiiiiiHllv  (Itslroyed  liy  intemperance,  200,000  children  sent  to  the  pnor-housej 
100,000  men  and  women  Rent  to  prison,  200,000  children  worse  than  orphaned,  and  an 
army  of  (500,000  drunkards  marches  in  solid  phalanx  toward  the  grave.  Over 
$1,000,000,000  in  money  are  spent  annually  for  intoxicating  drink.  It  produces  dis- 
ease, crime,  war,  misery,  and  death.  Three-fourths  of  our  taxation  comes  from  this 
source.  Tt  tills  our  prisons  and  poor-houses,  our  jails  and  lunatic  asylums.  The  agony 
i>t'  broken  hearts  around  desolated  homes  cannot  be  computed." 


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INTEMPERANCE.-(Co;m^„. 


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LY,  MOIULLY— THE  ATTTTrn^  ^^  PHYSICALLY,  MENTAL- 

■"isohief.  But  dold!^a!!!f  ™  T""^  °'  Satan  for 

beginnings  of  f^l^^fn  C  r  thiri^  ^7^'^" 
ance  is  a  moral  ucas  tUf  k.    iu      ,         *     -^temper- 

and  death  on  evT  idt^'vo  il    '  *""^  ''''"'''"'' 
mildew ;  no  relationTt^^       ^Tt "  '""""  fr°»  '*« 

the  poison  oH/st^r  We  i'T  "m""""  »'"^^' 
relation  toTvil  Hbt?  T""  T'"  "S-^  i"  "^ei 


if 


180 


THE  FOOT-PRINTS  OP  SATAN. 


the  intoxicating  beverage,  are  bad  patriots.  They  not 
only  invest  an  immense  amount  of  capital  in  unproduc- 
tive stock — in  an  enterprise  which  produces  nothing  but 
ruin  to  national  prosperity,  but  they  withhold  themsdvea, 
mentally,  morally  and  corporally,  from  the  service  and 
benefit  of  their  nation.  It  is  a  maxim  with  us  that  vir- 
tue and  intelligence  blended,  are  essential  to  the  pros- 
perity and  even  to  the  continued  existence  of  a  republican 
government.  I  need  not  say  that  intemperance  is 
point-blank  opposed  to  both  virtue  and  intelligence,-and 
consequently  the  enemy  of  our  government.  It  is  as 
demoralizing  and  debasing  as  it  is  impoverishing.  There 
is  no  one  vice  which  so  completely  disqualifies  a  man  to 
perform  his  duty  at  the  polls— nothing  which  so  con- 
fuses his  brain  and  perverts  his  judgment— and  nothing 
which,  in  the  eyes  of  law,  ought  sooner  to  be  regarded  a 
civil  disability.  Every  producer  and  every  consumer  of 
ardent  spirits,  is,  as  far  as  his  practice  goes,  an  enemy 
to  the  best  interests  of  his  country.  Where  have  there 
been  mischief  and  crime,  poverty  and  distress,  fightings 
and  murders,  woe  and  death,  and  the  demon  of  intem- 
perance was  not  there  ?  Yet  there  are  found  men,  call- 
ing  themselves  patriots,  and  perhaps  would  resent  not 
being  called  philanthropists,  who  are  reckless  enough  to 
introduce  an  engine  at  the  polls  for  the  very  purpose  of 
disquahfying  men  to  take  a  dispassionate  view  of  the 
best  interests  of  their  country,  and  making  them  act  for 
personal  or  party  purposes. 

But  let  us  here  open  the  annals  of  intemperance  and 
copy  a  single  page  as  touching  our  national  prosperity. 
The  calculation  in  the  following  items  is  made  for  ten 
years.  Though  the  scourge  has  been  somewhat  dimin- 
ished, yet  so  fearfully  does  intemperance  still  prevail  in 
our  land,  that  it  is  not  necessary  to  do  more  than  make 
a  moderate  abatement  in  the  facts.    The  appalling  har- 


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INTEMPERANCE  AND  PATRIOTISM.  '         181 

^„Jn/"*rrT°^  ^*'  '°'*  °"^  '^^tio^  the  last  ten  years 

Of  $60  000,000  a  year,  or  $600,000,000  for  the  decade 

It  would  construct  a  railroad  34,000  miles  in  a  sin 
gle  year,  at  $20,000  per  mUe;  or 

f«^*i''''''^i^.  *  '^''^^^  year,' furnish  a  Bible  to  every 
family  on  the  face  of  the  globe ;  or,  ^ 

It  would,  in  the  same  period  hrWA  l  QAn  oi,-       ^  xi 
line,  at  $600,000  each;  ^^^      '  '^^^  '^'P'  *^*  *^« 

JtKnJ°"^'^u*''^l^'^*^°^'l3W0  houses,  at  a  cost  of 
ptX         '  "^'""*  *^  accommodate  k    miC   ^1 


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182 


THE  FOOT-PRINTS  OF  SATAN. 


Less  than  half  this  sum  would  support  300,000  young 
men  in  college  at  $500  a  year ;  or  support  200,000  mis- 
sionaries at  $1,000  per  annum  ;  or, 

It  would  buy  a  farm,  costing  $4,000  for  each  of  the 
150,000  paupers  in  our  country. 

Now  is  he  a  patriot  who  would  foster — who  would 
licence  a  system  which  is  at  work  so  diametrically 
against  our  national  prosperity — undermining  the  moral- 
ity of  the  nation — wasting  its  substance— weakening  its 
strength,  and  with  fearful  havoc  preying  on  the  life  of  its 
subjects  ?  Again  I  say,  the  whole  liquor  producing  and 
liquor  consuming  fraternity  are  bad  patriots. 

We  will  examine  for  a  moment  the  deadly  rav- 
ages of  intemperance  on  mind.  And  here  again  we 
shall  find  "  sin  reigning  unto  death." 

On  this  point  a  learned  physician  and  professor  in 
Columbia  College,  Dr.  Sewall,  says :  "  Here  the  influence 
is  marked  and  decisive.  The  inebriate  first  lo'ses  his 
vivacity  and  natural  acuteness  of  perception.  His  judg- 
ment becomes  clouded  and  impaired  in  strength ;  the 
memory  enfeebled  and  sometimes  quite  obliterated. 
The  mind  is  wandering  and  vacant,  and  incapable  of 
intense  or  steady  apphcation  to  any  one  subject.  The 
imagination  and  the  will,  if  not  enfeebled,  acquire  a 
morbid  sensibility,  from  which  they  are  thrown  into  a 
state  of  violent  excitement  from  the  slightest  causes. 
Hence  the  inebriate  sheds  floods  of  tears  over  the 
pictures  of  his  own  fancy.  I  have  often  seen  hi'ii,  and 
especially  on  his  recovery  from  a  fit  of  intoxication,  weep 
and  laugh  alternately  over  the  same  scene.  The  will,  too, 
acqmres  an  omnipotent  ascendency  over  him,  and  is  the 
only  monitor  to  which  he  yields  obedience.  The  appeals 
of  conscience,  the  claims  of  domestic  happiness,  of  wives 
and  children,  of  patriotism  and  virtue  are  not  heard. 

"  The  different  powers  of  the  mind  having  lost  their 


BAVAQBS  ON  MIND  AND  MORALS.         Igg 

appKcatioo.  or  suooessfol  efforl-^d  alfhj"^  IS'*"?'" 
cases  out  ofteThTtus  '"m'""'^  °'^  '''*'  ^«'  *"  "'■''' 

the  eleweat  «n7^    ^^     7        °^  '''"'  l'*™  possessed 

S.  Wima.  io.es.  J^h^'i^ra^d'^Meltf 
wards,  furnish  a  striking  ilhstratio.^  of  ttis  teth     Ont 

Jen^  L^'t  °'  "'!'»''''<''y  history  that  the  use  of 
Mden    spints  has  made  worse  havoc  among  the  intel- 

befallen  the  human  mind.    It  is  here  the  great  destroyer 

casl  ofinl""^  °'  *■-«  -"  ■"«•''  i-tantrd 
Thts  of  ""•'"P*;*"™  ^^'o-'g  =ome  of  the  brightest 
hghts  of  our  and.  Some  have  fallen  to  rise  no  more 
Others  have  yielded  to  the  seductive  snare  to  their  own 
4sW  and  their  friends'  shame.  Would  tilt  le 
codd  except  any  class-even  the  most  sacred  ord^ 

So     r  °  a'  """^^  ""  """^''-g  «>-='"!««  'o  this  hoS 
Moloch.    An  enemy  hath  done  this. 

Int^perance    works  death  on  a  man's  moral  pow 
«-fc    Here    the    havoc   is    awful.    Intemperance   is    a 


184 


THE  FOOT-PRINTS  OF  8ATAN. 


foe  to  morality  and  religion.  Select  the  most  amiable, 
industrious,  domestic  and  moral  man,  and  withal  one  that 
is  apparently  religious,  and  see  what  a  change  may  be 
produced  in  a  few  months  by  the  habit  in  question.  He 
is  now  a  good  husband ;  a  kind  and  tender  father ;  an 
obUging  neighbor;  an  affectionate  friend;  honest  and 
prompt  in  his  deahngs.  He  is  cheerful  and  happy  at 
home,  and  respected  abroad.  He  calls  the  Sabbath  a 
delight, — his  seat  is  filled  in  the  sanctuary — the  Bible  is 
the  man  of  his  counsel — the  family  altar  sends  up  the 
morning  and  evening  incense.  He  finds  the  ways  of 
wisdom  pleasant  and  all  her  paths  peace. 

Such  is  the  man  as  nature  and  grace  has  made  him. 
But  let  us  see  what  alcohol  will  make  him — what  tippling 
— what  habitual  drinking  will  make  him.  No  sooner  is 
the  habit  fixed  on  him  than  a  change  is  apparent.  He 
becomes  impatient,  peevish,  ill-natured.  His  home  has 
fewer  attractions.  The  milk  of  human  kindness  begins 
to  dry  up ;  the  sensibilities  of  his  soul  to  wither.  As  a 
husband  he  is  less  tender  and  afiectionate ;  as  a  father 
less  kind  and  indulgent.  He  i»  less  friendly  and  obliging. 
All  but  one  of  his  attachments  are  diminishing ;  that  is 
growing  and  strengthening  day  by  day. 

He  gradually  absents  himself  from  the  church  :  first, 
that  he  may  lounge  at  home,  then,  that  he  may  lounge 
and  tipple  at  the  grog-shop  or  the  bar-room.  The  Sab- 
bath is  profaned,  and  with  that,  moral  restraint  loosed. 
His  neglected  Bible  scarcely  remains  as  an  ornament  of 
the  table  or  mantel-piece.  The  family  altar  is  forsaken, 
and  his  once  happy  home  becomes  a  desolation  to  him. 
He  gradually  loses  all  regard  for  morality  and  religion, 
becomes  profane,  misanthropic,  and  insensible  to  every- 
thing but  the  gratification  of  a  vitiated  appetite. 

He  neither  relishes  nor  is  he  fitted  to  enjoy  any  but 
(;he  society  of  the  lewd,  the  base  and  the  worthless.    He 


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THE  diRUOOO.O?  MORAL   DEATH.  135 

.  voluntary  outcast  from  virtuous  ^d  decj^t  LIT" 

«ars:^.^rdot:i:rrd^Tr  ^^^^^^^ 
■  /act  thtrr^^atetrLr  ™c^^^^^^^^^ 

i^r^-tdEzSlH 

loose;  ooMdence  is  hushed  in  slumber    the  !,»?k-?" 
to  of  the  heart  are  benumbed ;  the  "  s^^'ng  l^T^?^" 
hoi  enters  and  takes  possession  of  the  house     Bid 
ever  know  a  ease  where  the  moral  wo  ti  an"  b^l^rf 

«utdT.W  """^  Tr'""^''  fourthsTte  it 
reto  and  hf  gations  are  to  be  set  down  to  the  same  a^ 

Tt.^,?,""!  ®'"°''°  "'  """^  ''«»"'  passing  over  a  m«, 
follow  that  when  .  man  haf  onot trti:]'  ^  "^^^ 


186 


THE  FOOT-PRINTS  OP  8ATAN. 


worth,  he  as  soon  loses  his  reputation  and  self-respect. 
His  actual  standing  in  society  is  low — though  every  ef- 
fort may  be  made  to  keep  him  up  for  what  he  has  been. 
Hie  reputation  is  ambiguous ;  he  has  done  violence  to 
his  nature  as  an  intelligent  and  moral  being,  and  cannot 
be  regarded  by  men  in  their  sober  senses  as  otherwise 
than  debased.  Indeed,  he  is  a  witness  against  himself. 
He  feels  the  spirit  of  a  man  depart  from  him  the  mo- 
ment he  yields  his  independence  to  the  slavery  of  in- 
temperance. As  he  finds  himself  neglecting,  or  unfit  to 
perform  duties  which  were  once  hia  honor  and  his  pride, 
frequenting  places  where  once  he  would  have  blushed  to 
be  seen,  and  associating  with  company  "  whose  fathers 
he  once  would  have  disdained  to  set  with  the  dogs  of  his 
flock,"  how  must  his  very  soul  loathe  himself.  His  mo- 
ral character  falls  in  the  scale  in  proportion  as  he  de- 
scends in  the  road  of  hard  drinking.  And  if  a  good 
name  is  rather  to  be  chosen  than  silver  and  gold,  what 
an  argument  have  we  here  to  touch  not,  taste  not,  handle 
not. 

The  connection  of  intemperance  with  immorality  and 
crime  does  but  again  illustrate  the  magnitude  of  the 
evil  in  question.  Our  enemy  is  fully  conscious  of  his 
power  here,  and  is  not  slack  to  use  his  advantages.  By 
no  other  devices  does  he  so  eflfectually  people  the  dark 
realms  of  the  Pit.  "We  shall  subpoena  witnesses  who 
will  on  this  point  testify  to  what  they  know,  and  bear 
witness  to  what  they  have  seen  ;  and  we  shall  incline  to 
receive  their  witness  as  true.    We  have  first, 

English  Judges  on  Strong  Drinks  and  Crime. — There 
is  scarcely  a  crime  comes  before  me  that  is  not  directly  or 
indirectly  caused  by  strong  drink. — Judge  Coleridge. 

If  it  were  not  for  this  drinking,  you  (the  jury)  and  I 
would  have  nothing  to  do. — Judge  Fatteson. 

Experience  has  proved  that  almost    all  crime  into 


JUDICIAL  TESTOIONT.  jgy 

which  juries  have  had  to  inquire  may  be  trann^    • 

crimes  that  are  oommiffii_v  ,°"'*^^°'v.  of  most  of  the 
If  all  men  could  be  dissuaded  from  the  use  of  intn.J 

who'"°wUr'"l"'°""''''^''"''''*°'''' Testimony    „foae 

Tears  ?„  «T  ♦  '     f '"''  """""'s^one'  for  Dearly  twenty 
out  of  twenty  of  Zwieh     T°T'  """^  ■''"*'«^'' 

estate  amounting  to  $293  600  ^ 

pA's;%t^ J' frr ''"'''''  "'^---'to  death. 

y     II  worto    an    immense    amount  of  natnral 


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THE   F00T-PBINT8  OP  SATAN. 


dmth.  And  first  we  meet  mtemperanoe  as  tlie  insidious 
foe  to  health — the  sapper  and  miner  of  the  constitution. 
On  this  point  we  are  particularly  indebted  to  the  Medical 
Facuity.  And  by  the  way,  we  feel  pleasure  in  acknowl- 
edging that  the  cause  of  intemperance  is,  in  this  respect, 
more  indebted  to  gentlemen  of  the  medical  profession 
than  to  any  other  class  of  men.  Though  the  prevalence 
of  temperance  will  endanger  their  craft  more  than  any 
other  (unless  it  be  that  of  the  lawyer)  yet  they  have 
come  up  nobly  and  given  an  uneqmvocal  testimony 
against  the  vice,  and  lent  the  full  weight  of  their  influence 
in  favor  of  reform :  testimony  and  influence  the  more 
valuable  as  given  in  opjosition  to  their  pecuniary 
interests. 

The  large  and  highly  respectable  body  of  physicians, 
called  before  a  committee  of  the  British  Parliament,  at 
the  instance  of  the  Hon.  Mr.  Buckingham  (late  traveller 
in  this  country)  composed  of  several  hundreds  of  the 
most  eminent  of  the  profession  from  England,  Scotland 
and  Ireland,  unitedly,  "  declared  that  intoxicf4mg  drmks 
are  never  necessary  to  men  in  health,  but  on  the  contrary 
f  *•«  always  hurtful :  that  they  are  in  fact  poisonous  like 
opium,  arsenic,  nux  vomica  and  prussio  acid,  and  other 
suostances  which  God  has  given  to  be  used  in  small  quan- 
tities for  medical  purposes,  and  which,  if  so  used,  may  be 
productive  of  wholesome  results,  but  which  it  would  be 
preposterous  to  think  of  using  as  a  beverage." 

TLe  following  may  be  taken  as  some  account  of  the 
manner  in  whiori  this  potent  foe  invades  the  human 
system.  Stone  after  stone  is  made  to  fall  from  the  firm 
fabric  till  the  whole  lies  in  ruins. 

'*  Tho  habit  once  formed,  the  whole  system,"  says  one, 
"  soon  bears  marks  of  debility  and  decay.  The  voluntary 
muscles  lose  their  powers  and  cease  to  act  under  the 
control  of  the  will,  and  hence  all  the  movements  become 


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PHYSICAL  TOKENS  OP  DISTRESS.  189 

,'  ""d  ""«  step  loses  its  elastioity  and  viiror     m.^ 
musdes,  and  especially  those  of  th.  L  a^'       ^ 

BAibni  „j.u  ■  witnin.  The  extremities  are  at  leneth 
seuiod  wrth  a  tremor,  which  is  more  strongly  mS 
^ter  recovery  from  a  fit  of  intoxication.  Thfurti 
Iheir  sigm5cant  exDresimn    fi,„  i    •  ^       ^ 

sicklv  i«^„„  V.  ^^P^fop— tne  complexion  assumes  a 

™t^L  ?•  "*'°'  ''°''a°gea  to  an  unhealthy  fiery 
Si      ■  l"^  "^  °°™''«*  """  ^d  s'^s  and  bktchel 

.ceaainLp.ica?atar»rS~^ 

■   ml'^t'^'^rf  '.  '^'  '-^'^  skin/Sldimtl  to 
marJc    tha  habitual    dram-drinkfir      An/i    +1,  "  *" 

itSt™  ""^^^^Xt  of^'tl^efani: 
lost  u.  the  tameness  and  sensnaUty  of  the  brute." 

Such  are  some  of  tie  tokens  of  distress  which  tortured 
nature  giyes  of  yiolence  from  without.    The  st«,„«hdds 

Though  unseen  and  unsuspected,  morbid  changes  a™ 
takmg  plaee  within,  fatal  and  irretkeyable        ^ 

Ihe  use  of  ardent  spirits  deranges  the  functions  of  *),» 
stomach,  and,  if  continued,  changes  its  Zct^  ite 
nebnafe  first  loses  his  appetite  and  beoomrthi^iy  a^ 

spasmodic  pains  m  the  region  of  the  stomach.    He  is 
o  ten  seized  with  dyspepsia,  and  either  wastes  awayby 

The  i.«r   the  Jratn,  the  heart  and  the  lungs,  each  in 
their  turn  faU  a  prey  to  the  rayages  of  the^gieTtde" 


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TEE  FOOT-PRINTS  OP  SATAN. 


troyer ;  and  a  long  list  of  diseases,  some  of  one  organ  and 
some  of  another,  are  the  legitimate  results  of  intem- 
perance. But  it  stops  not  in  any  preliminary  work  of 
death.  It  actually  peoples  the  grave  with  more  victims, 
and  hell  with  more  inhabitants  than  disease,  pestilence 
or  war. 

I  am  not  going  into  the  blood-chilling  details  here.  A 
few  shall  suffice ;  and  I  shall  content  myself  with  a  few  of 
a  single  class. 

Whose  blood  has  not  been  chilled  on  reading  the 
heartsickening  accounts  of  the  loss  of  the  Kent,  the 
Eothsay  Castle,  the  Ben  Sherrod  and  the  Home  ?— to  say 
nothing  of  scores  of  other  accounts  of  more  recent  date  and 
scarcely  less  disastrous.  And  whose  indignation  against 
the  use  of  intoxicating  drinks  does  not  rise  when  told 
.  that  these  were  the  authors  of  such  death-glutting  dis- 
asters ?  The  Kent  was  an  East  Indiaman  of  1,400  tons, 
and  had  on  board  more  than  600  souls,  all  of  whom  must 
have  perished  in  the  flames  or  sunk  beneath  the  waves, 
but  for  the  timely  reliei  of  a  passing  ship.  Eighty-one 
lives  were  lost.  The  vessel  took  fire  from  the  careless- 
ness of  a  drunken  soldier. 

The  destruction  of  the  steam  packet  Rothsay  Castle 
is  still  more  appalling.  She  was  wrecked  on  her  way 
from  Liverpool  to  Dublin,  in  1831.  Here  more  than 
one  hundred  men,  women  and  children,  in  a  single  hour 
found  a  grave  beneath  the  billows  of  the  deep.  This 
dreadful  catastrophe,  which  destroyed  some  of  the  most 
useful  lives  in  England,  is  chargeable  to  the  drunkmness  of 
her  commander.    He  fell  a  victim. 

But  we  need  not  go  beyond  the  records  of  our  own 
country  to  find  some  of  the  most  appalling  monuments 
to  intemperance.  Many  a  heart  still  palpitates  with 
grief,  and  many  an  eye  fills  with  the  big  tear  at  the  re- 
membrance of  the  Ben  Sherrod  or  the  Home. 


THE  BEN  SHEBEOD  AMD  THE  HOME.  Ifll 

embrace  of  sleep,  (May  9  Iftq?;!  V    7  ''^  *^® 

their  uJr  ani  thiX!''™*'^  V^"  '"'"«'  ''^''k  '■>' 

with  larg;  ;:'„^^  of  sr  izr^'-?'^  '"">» 

ducement  fo  keen  «n  Jn      -      I  ^P'"*^  ^«  a^"»- 

ov.ta.in,  JyfJP;--J-.^  .t.e  vie.  of 

Seldom  has  a  ship's  company  numbered  on  W  r  f 
many  persons  of  character  and  re^neotaWH^      t  "" 
who  had  been  spending  the  summer  at  t-^'*,.^'"' 

as  they  stepped  oIh.^5i  tu^      ^-      ^  ''"PP^  '^^on 
famed  ^sseTtheHor    """"''S"'-""^'' «•"!  speed- 

the're:S!L^<:ir::;^7^^.'^^^ey  .ere  at 

:;:;:^i:ftLt;SnH^rn?--- 

description.  ^  P'^"**-!  «  scene  which  beggars  all 
iro7''l''r„'  '''^^*«  »'0PS.  niotionless  as  a  bar  of 

Tath  struTfrtZ  GVuTV,  ",  ''"  «"S'  "' 
soon  the  work  of  de^th  be^In  Ihr  "["'""S'''"-  But 
»^«  crash,  swept  o.er  t^at  ct^  ru:fr 


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THE  POOT-PBTNTS  OP  SATAN. 


nate  victims  into  the  deep.    Heartrending  were  the 
cries  and  shrieks  of  those  who  were  calling  for  help  as 
wave  after  wave  showed  them  struggling  amidst  the  bil- 
lows, or  of  those  who  expected  the  next  wave  to  sub- 
merge them  in  the  yawning  abyss."   There  was  seen  the 
mother  with  her  little  ones  clinging  about  her,  in  vain 
imploring  a  mother's  protection,  till  a  merciless  wave 
swept  them  away  together.    Husbands  and  wives— some 
clinging  together  as  if  knit  by  the  embrace  of  death- 
others  see  a  fond  partner  torn  away  by  the  resistless 
torrent  and  buried  beneath  the  waves.    A  lady  was  seen 
standing  on  the  deck  as  the  second  wave  swept  over, 
with  an  infant  pressed  to  her  bosom.    The  child  was 
torn  from  her  arms  and  thrown  upon  the  angry  deep. 
"  The  poor  woman,"  says  an  eye-witness,  "  sprang  from 
the  deck  with  a  loud  shriek  and  leaped  into  the  foam  af- 
ter her  babe,"  and  they  perished  together. 

But  there  was  another  scene.  While  some  were  fran- 
tic, some  prayed,  some  were  petrified  from  fear,  others 
flew  to  the  bar  for  liquor,  and  spent  the  last  hours  of 
their  lives  in  drinking,  cursing  and  swearing.  The  bar 
had  been  closed,  but  those  akeady  mad  with  intoxication, 
and  resolved  to  have  more,  rushed  on  the  bar  and  broke 
it  open.  Some  endeavored  to  persuade  the  bar-keeper  to 
destroy  his  hquors,  but  he  would  not  sacrifice  so  much 
propetiyl  "Poor  fellows!"  adds  the  narrator,  "he  did 
not  Uve  to  enjoy  his  gains." 

But  why  proceed?  The  whole  affair  was  one  of  unmin- 
gled  wretchedness  and  woe.  -^iwe^y^re  human  beings 
were  thereby  plunged  in  a  moment  into  a  watery  grave ; 
and  more  than  twice  ninety-five  familieii  were  bathed  in 
tears  and  clad  in  mourning. 

And  what  was  the  cause  ?  It  was,  I  say  again,  the  in- 
competency of  an  intoxicated  captain.  It  was  the  habit  of 
taking  a  litik  when  one  thinks  he  needs  it.     The  captain 


DEATH  TO  THE  mMOBTAL  8PIBIT.  I93 

to  pateonke  thdr  wSt  ?       " '°"«  "*"  "«''  """""^ 

ring  in  the  ea„  of  fe'riel  rTr/^''"''  '^  "^"^  '^ 
for  human  woes  and  L  fir^K  •  , "  *""■  compassion 
ite  opponenlrfin  tLw       uT  ^''*' '  ""^  '"  «»«  «"«  of 

Where  war  ha,  Z^tfTZ         ^'!  '^'''''W  among  men. 

a  de^7  dTseTel' ehetmr:Sr  n  T  ?^"'  '^ 
this  world  with  wretchednera^lr  and  Uel^t  f^ 
does  more  than  aU  other  evils  to  fllM^       .?'    "'  " 

with  its  miserable  inmates  It  toltattf"'"? 
and  death  eternal     If  i«  „  „  •  ^®^*^  temporal 

monster,  leaving  nothL\  J^Trhf-^'''^'^''^ 
and  death.  Onoe  thr^w  yoi  iX  I  T^^f  ^'  ™« 
and  you  have  surrenderTrUrt  ?"^'^  ^rasp, 

return  but  shame,  diS:l:ll'/^t""'™'  '"'"^  ^ 

defit^o'p^! .■'"rlt'lT?''"'''"''^  ■«  *«  -8«>  °' 

of  ware,S:rL;eX™Ld^:  r  Her^^t  T"'' 
stronghold  among  men.    °'"^°*"™-  Here  is  tie  devil's 

13 


IX- 


THE    PERVERSION    OF    INTELLECT. 


MENTAL     RESOURCES     AND     AOTIVITIEa — ^MIND     THE     PRIME 

MOVER    OP    ALL  ACTION — OP   ALL    POWER — LITERATURE 

SOIENOE — HISTORY — ^MUSIC,    AND  THEIR  SAD    PERVERSION. 

"Knowledge  is  power" — a  power  either  for  good  or  for 
evil.  All  action  lies  in  mind.  Muscle  is  nothing  except 
as  the  servant  of  mind.  It  acts  only  as  set  in  motion  and 
guided  by  this  wonderful  yet  unseen  agent.  You  see 
riding  proudly  upon  the  bosom  of  the  ocean  a  noble  man 
of  war.  It  is  a  grand  achievement  of  human  power.  Ev- 
ery mind,  field  and  forest— every  species  of  human  skill 
and  power,  were  employed  in  its  construction ;  yet  that 
mighty  thing  was  once  but  an  idea— a  thought.  Or  you 
board  an  ocean  steamer,  and  contemplate  all  its  ma»niti- 
cent  arrangements -the  varied  skill  in  its  construction 
and  fitting  up,  and  the  power  that  moves  it  over  the  face 
of  the  angry  deep,  and  you  have  again  before  you  but  &n 
elaboration  in  ail  its  varied  forms  of  a  thought.  In  like 
manner  we  may  trace  back  to  its  humble  inception  in 
some  mind  the  idea  of  the  present  steam  power.  What  is 
now  ramified  into  all  the  multifarious  forms  of  enginery — 
what  is  now  embodied  in  all  the  modes  of  steam  power, 
whether  to  propel  the  mighty  steamer,   the    railway- 


I 


WHAT  THOUaHT  DOBS.  '  jng 

on«"  tjSr'in^Mt'  "-ufi^W-the  whole  w„ 

«d  the  m„,e  abraant  tte  o^"^""  '**'  "«'  ™''» 

be  expressed  by  a  suIlL  ^  ^^'^  may  sometimes 

the  wateh-word  for  Soir  "T'"'"'"'  ^^""^  ^"^ 
destiny  of  empirSSri..*""'  ""  ^°»'^  '"  the 
on  o  JthouXTs  u.toH  1  "  "■""'^  ^""S-  ^o""*"! 
poUtical  chL^s  h^I T,  ^  ""^  r"  ^""''y  g^t 
campaigns  hSn  ;„'  LZ  r'  '^"''*™"'*' 
thought  which  has  becre'cSrenr^dT'.^'  "  """' 
lymg  cry  for  the  enthuaiasmT^kv^  f^  "  "  "^- 

studio  he  ooucdv^i:?!!'''  P'^°»°Pher,  when  in  hi, 

j«morW  iderrr^^"  *1X  ^1"  "^  ^"' 
from  land  to  lanrl  o«^        u  °  '^®*'  messages 

its  countless  wires    But'Ttt"'"  T"t  *^'  ''°"''  -^* 

that  thought  tCU" i":-i7tli,X'T"^  1 

it  wit'h  a  be:mt7umr™ter°°frf  " '  T*"  ^ 
-enter  to  a-r^rtrbL^nTS  -pi:^  ^ 


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THE  FOOT-PRINTS  OP  SATAN. 


appliances,  and  the  steam-engine,  elevated  to  the  rank  of 
the  great  motor  of  oivilization,  has  raised  the  world  by  a 
more  than  Archimedean  lever  to  a  far  higher  level  of 
progress  and  development. 

An  unknown  and  humble  man  conceived  the  idea  of 
using  steam  to  paddle  vessels,  but  the  inventor  struggled 
through  life,  and  died  without  realizing  his  hopes.  John 
Fitch  never  saw  the  success  of  his  plans,  but  Fulton 
designed  a  rotary  paddle-wheel ;  and  now  all  over  the 
world  steamers  ply  their  rotating  feet,  and  float  on  every 
tide.  Neptune  rides  in  a  mighty  floating  palace,  and 
oceans  are  crossed  with  scarce  a  fear. 

But  the  press,  the  great  "  art  preservative  of  all  arts" — 
printing  owes  its  existence  to  the  simple  idea  of  stamping 
letters  rudely  cut  on  a  block.  Out  of  that  incident  grew 
tho  art  which  is  now,  and  must  henceforth  be,  the  world's 
great  teacher.  With  a  few  pieces  of  metal,  curiously 
shaped,  it  prints  on  paper  thoughts  and  words  that  sweep 
over  the  world.  It  is  the  wonderful  and  genuine  thought- 
machine  which  kindles  the  fire,  and  wakens  the  intellect, 
and  moves  the  countless  thoughts  of  millions  of  minds. 
The  energy  and  action — the  revolutions  and  tshanges 
which  have  resulted  and  will  yet  result  from  the  original 
idea,  are  beyond  conception. 

The  apple  that  fell  at  the  feet  of  the  philosopher  started 
a  thought,  out  of  which  grew  the  demonstration  of  laws 
and  principles  in  science  which  unfolded  a  whole  domain 
of  uuperceived  truth,  and  enabled  the  mind  to  weigh  the 
spheres,  and  compute  motions  of  celestial  mechanism  for 
immense  periods  of  the  future. 

We  are  in  no  danger  of  overrating  the  power  of  thought. 
There  is  inherent  in  it  an  energy,  the  capabilities  of  which 
we  are  in  no  condition  to  estimate.  All  our  inventions 
and  discoveries,  all  improvements  and  reforms  are  but  the 
realizations  of  thought.      But  this  power,  like  all  the 


x. 


EDUCATION  18  BimjLOPHEHT.  I97 

powers  snbordinate  to  it,  is  an  agent  for  aood  or  t^r.  .„n 
according  to  the  influence  wluch  gnideJi^  th.  1  ' 

to^hichitisdireotod.  Fire,  rtor'toCkS" 
are  as  mighty  for  mischief,  when  left  nncoatroUed  o^ 
when  de™  ed  to  hurtM  purposes,  as  on  the  otW  hanl 
thoy  are  m.ghty  for  good,  when  beneficiaUy  appM    The 

inllTTf °^''",f'*  "^  agent  ^oflrstaUo: 
and  death ;  but  when  guided  by  the  hand  of  science  and 

made  the  servant  of  man,  it  becomes  an  agent  Tfo„c^ 
motion  swifter  than  the  wind,  bearing  mesfaaes  of  C 

:f°thrrd":^^""''"''"'^-'  ^^^^  -»« -^ 

And  not  only  do  we  discover  in  the  human  inteUeot 
the  hidmg  of  ail  power,  either  for  good  or  for  e^l  bnl 
we  here  meet  a  power  that  is  capable  of  an  intoe 
mcrease  or  expansion.    Education,  in  its  tree  "nd  e^ 
molog.cal  sense  is  not  a  process  wiereby  Ty  n^  f^S" 
ty  IS  added  to  the  mind.   To  educate  is  to  JJtoZt 
ml,  to  develop  what  is  already  in  the  mind     r„ 
^hool  of  learning,  in  every  p^e.s  „  mental  dtiZT 
tt.ere  .s  an  unfolding  of  mind,  an  expansion  of TiZ 
power,  and  consequently,  there  is  a  correspondiT  re 
spo„s.bil,ty  for  the  right  use  of  this  increased  mfntar 
power.    Unto  whom  much  is  given  much  :^U  T™! 

I  might  dwell  on  the  responsibility  and  urge  the  dnfv 
o    an  honest  devoUon  of  whatever  of  ongin  J  if  ^ 

of  truth  and  righteousness.    But  it  is  rather  the  design 
of  the  present  chapter  to  conduct  the  reader  over  S 

ttstX  1:^ •    ^^''°"'  '"'»'  ^-'*«~  E-7 

It  would  need  none  of  the  romance  of  ho™  «r  .( 

specuUtion  tod.      .what  our  world  wLd  ^romi 


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THE  FOOT-PBINTS  OF    SATAN. 


if  there  were  no  such  thing  among  men  as  the  perver- 
sion of  talent — if  all  learning  and  science  and  art if 

eloquence  and  poetry  and  logic,  and  mental  training  and 
endowments  of  every  kind,  were  devoted  only  to  the 
real  and  lasting  welfare  of  man.  But  what  do  we  find 
to  be  the  melancholy  fact  ?  What  hath  the  enemy  done 
Jiere?  How  little  of  learning  subserves  the  cause  of 
truth,  of  right,  of  freedom,  of  religion  1  How  little  of 
literature — of  poetry,  of  history,  of  eloquence  or  art  I 
How  small  a  portion  is  engaged  for  God  and  his  cause  I 
The  usurpations  of  the  Enemy  here  are  melancholy  in- 
deed, and  almost  universal. 

The  thought  finds  a  melancholy  illustration  in  actual 
life.  We  might  adduce  any  number  of  examples.  Among 
the  most  briUiant  and  gifted  men  and  popular  writers,  we 
number  such  men  as  Lord  Byron,  Voltaire,  Hume, 
Gibbon,  Bousseau,  Paine.  They  were  giants  in  intellect, 
and  withal,  they  were  endowed  with  talents  of  a  popu- 
lar character,  fitted  to  exert  the  highest  order  of  in- 
fluence on  other  minds.  But  what  influence  did  they  ex- 
ert ?    What  mark  have  they  left  behind  them  ? 

In  the  social  and  moral  influence  left  behind  them, 
they  have  been  as  the  scorching  sirocco  that  passes  over 
a  fertile  and  beautiful  land.  It  may  be  said  of  them 
morally,  as  the  prophet  said  of  a  desolating  army  which 
he  describes :  "  The  land  before  them  is  as  the  Garden 
of  Eden,  and  behind  them  a  desolate  wilderness.".  Man 
is  scarcely  the  victim  of  a  more  blighting  curse  than 
that  inflicted  by  the  pen  of  a  corrupt  and  corrupting, 
yet  popular  writer. 

And  how  sad  the  use  some  of  the  most  gifted  men  of  the. 
present  day  are  making  of  their  talents.  We  might  here 
instance^  were  it  necessary,  any  number  of  popular  writers 
of  the  present  day,  whose  mighty  minds  and  ready  pens 
and  eloquent  tongues,  if  they  had  been  employed  to  illus- 


POWBB  or  H)IT»T  OF  KLOQBEKOE.  199 

ni  ^  they  h»,e  engaged  in  perrertmg  and  oppcing 
•t,  they  would  bo  mighty  men  in  the  earth  "  OneLnef 
destroyeth  muoh  good."  In  nothing  does  this  uphr.m 
told  more  sadly  true  than  in  respect  t„  the  influeZ 
«erted  by  one  commanding  mind  over  the  minds  of  fte 
mass.  If  every  thought  is  a  power,  and  every  though! 
.^«  „  a  power  ea^rcised  tor  good  or  for  evU,  then  we 
«.ay  estimate,  m  some  degree  at  least,  what  rWources 
to.  evil  are  garnered  in  the  perverted  inteUect  of  a  sinde 
^eat  mind.    Whether  he  write,  or  speak,  or  act,  theret 

We  may  select  any  of  the  modes  by  which  mind  gains 
a  supremacy  over  mind  and  directs  it  whithersoev^™ 
W.U.  and  our  thoughts  will  be  abundantly  illustrated. 

l-oetry  has  a  charm  over  the  mind  of  immense  Dower 
Tet  how.e.ten^vely  is  this  noble  art  wrested  from  iU  S 
level  from  which  It  tends,  to  elevate  lie  mind,  to  or^^ 
bons  of  Its  own,  to  rouse  the  better  passions  of  the  soul 

L    r.'/""*  '^  """'"  *"  '^"  '»»""g»  """J  ""'ions,  Zi 
brought  It  down  to  grovel  with  debasement  and  moTiS 

eoxruption.  How  often  ithas  been  shamefully  surrendered 
to  the  enemy,  and  he  has  used  it  without  stint,  to  corrupt 
to  rouse  the  latent  passions  of  a  nature  already  corrupt' 
and  to  urge  to  feelings  and  acts  which  curse  our  common 
inheritance,  and  bleb  not.  i-ummon 

Eloquence  is  a  rare  power,  too,  among  the  elements 
tut  move  to  action.  It  is  a  mental  power,  developed  and 
»«ed  for  the  control  of  other  minds ;  and  when  used  <X 
to  persuade  man  to  right  action,  or  to  the  adoption  of 
^ht  prmciples.  It  IS  truly  a  divine  art,  as  well  as  mighty. 
Bu  how  little  of  this  noble  art  is  as  yet  devoted  to  the 
«al  fflterests  of  man,  the  estabUshment  and  defence  of 
the  truth,  or  the  support  of  human  rights,  or  the  promo- 


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THB  FOOT-PRINTS  OF  SATAN. 


tion  of  human  happiness  I  How  extensively  is  this 
divine  art  employed  merely  to  amuse  as  its  better  func- 
tion ;  while,  what  is  a  thousand  times  worse,  how  much 
oftener  is  it  employed  to  mislead,  to  deceive,  to  fortify 
error  and  wrong-to  make  the  worse  course  appear  the 
better— not  to  bless,  but  to  curse. 

I  oannot  better  illustrate  what  I  mean  than  by  the  aid 

of  a  contrast  recently  drawn  by  an  unknown,  yet  not  an 

unpracticed  pen.    It  is  of  two  men  of  professional  Ufe 

who  recently  died  in  the  city  of  New  York.    They  were 

both  born  of  religious  parentage,  educated  under  the 

most  favorable   circumstances,  and  both  filled  a  large 

space  in  the  public  eye.    Both  have  gone  to  their  rest, 

and  now  the  impartial  verdict  may  be  passed  upon  their 

lives  and  the  fruit  of  their  professional  labors.    The  death 

and  burial  of  both,  nearly  simultaneous,  seems  to  admit  of 

Dunning  out  a  parallel,  instructive,  even  if  painful : 

They  started  alike  in  life  under  the  most  favorable 
prospects  for  usefulness  and  elevation  of  character.  They 
travelled  the  same  road  together  but  briefly,  and  when 
they  separated,  one  took  the  «  straight  and  narrow  path  " 
which  leads  to  life,  and  the  other  the  "  broad  road  which 
leads  to  destruction."    One  espoused  the  cause  of  Christ, 
and  devoted  time,  talents  and  the  energies  of  a  ]  r  '  raiu- 
istry  to  the  cause  of  his  blessed  Master.    The  oti  o.       /< 
his  rare  native  gifts,  and  the  industry  of  wear},  toi.umo 
years  to  a  profession  which  yields  only  the  most  bittei 
fruits  of  unrighteousness.  One  labored  untiringly  through 
life  to  lead  men  to  seek  their  spiritual  safety  to-day,  and 
to  ad  7HT?co  their  true  happiness  by  following  the  way  of 
posii-i-  s  ^m^ow^  duty.    The  other,  not  less  diligent  in 
the  -ixik',   i  H  public  profession,  insidiously  seduced  men 
from  their  allegiance  to  Christ,  by  ridiculing  the  character 
of  his  disciples  and  caricaturing  their  professions  and 
practices.    One  was   engaged  in  eveiy  good  word  and 


THE  STIUlaHT  tm,  HAHaoW  TATO.  m 

devoted  lutTZlf^ZtX  "f """«■,  ^"-"'er 

qnent  dissipation,  «ud  brexal  1    T'^T^  '"  °'"'"- 
•aanTof  th8v™,„„  •  .  ^  example,  if  not  precept,  led 

never  exWoaiT*  °"""'  "'""  "'''"''  ""^^  -«« 

of  I»k'-'*  f  T  ™'  »  "'*"'»"'»'  illustration  of  the  power 

arge  circle  of  eminent  Christian  friends     Th!  o^h!  K  j 
^he  a    roU«      „,i„,^  „,  ^^^  ^,  ^_^»f-  .^tVand  W 

hour  oT'^T  "''  "'"' ''"'  '«"  '"  "dhere  to  him  in  the 
hour  of  sickness  and  sorrow.    One  died  th.  „l,rJ  i 

happy  disciple  of  a  beloved  Master,  ready  to  t^^n 

^speakable  joy    promised  the  Christian,    i^e  oth» 

without  hope  or  God  in  the  world."  suffered  bitteriy  ^' 

h.8  dying  bed,  remorse  biting  like  a  serpent  and  stTnri^^ 

mu'chlfh    ''  ''T';-^'  ""'«  "">  ""^  oontribuld  so 
the  ricHm  ofTe      """f  ."•  "*!"'"'  "«  ^'-»^^«  "ad  been 

carried  t^  iL        °"'''  '''^'''"°''  ""-^  ^^'^^    One  was 
carried  to  the  grave,  surrounded  by  the  symDathies  of 

earnest  friends  and  the  warmest  affection  Tchrist  J 

lUe  other  died  under  circumstances  of  pecuUar  doom 
leaving  few  incidents  in  a  frivolous  and  wasted  Me   to 
cause  society  to  mourn  his  departure.  ' 

Comments  are  needless  and  might  seem  invidious    Th. 
one  has  heard  his  Master  say :  '••  Servant  of  God,  weU 

«TL  *    i'  r^'^^y  »  8<><"J1J  "ompany  which  he  had 
guided  to  the  heavenly  Zion,  and  followed  by  the  bene- 


U  V 


"^lli  :■> 


202 


THE  P00T-PRINT3  OF  SATAN. 


diction  of  thousands  who  wait  still  the  Master's  call,  h© 
enters  his  eternal  rest.  But  what,  when  viewed  from  his 
standpoint  before  the  tribunal  of  the  great  God,  does  the 
gi'eat  comedian  now  see  in  the  life-elevation  of  his  no  less 
gifted  mind,  and  probablj  more  bri'liant  talents  that  can 
minister  one  drop  of  satisfaction  now  ?  Does  he  wish  his 
works  to  follow  him  ?  Would  he  now  be  greeted  by  the 
array  of  that  great  multitude,  which,  during  a  long  and 
much  applauded  professional  course,  he  had  the  most 
eflfectually  helped  onward  in  their  downward  course  in  the 
broad  road  to  death. 

I  pause  only  to  ask  the  young  man  now  buckling  on 
the  harness  for  hfe,  endowed  with  brilliant  talents,  and 
aspuring  after  great  things,  in  whose  footsteps  he  would 
choose  to  tread  ?  Would  he  follow  in  the  career,  and 
seek  the  world-wide  renown  of  William  E.  Burton  ?  Or 
would  he,  as  an  humble,  faithful  disciple  of  Jesus  Christ, 
and  a  minister  of  the  New  Testament,  like  James  W. 
Alexander  and  George  Whitfleld,  yield  himself  up  a 
servant  of  the  crucified  one,  and  seek  honor  with  God  by 
turning  many  to  righteousness? 

But  there  is  yet  another  class,  whom,  though  I  would 
not  rank  them  in  the  category  of  ^;he  classes  before  named, 
are  satisfied  to  employ  their  mental  endowments  in  a 
department  of  literature,  ^hich  can  scarcely  claim  a 
higher  office  than  that  of  catering  to  the  transient,  and 
too  often  not  the  innocent  amusement  of  readers.  We 
cannot  too  deeply  regret  that  such  rare,  brilliant,  com- 
manding talents  for  popular  writing  as  are  possessed  by 
such  authors  as  Dickens,  Bulwer,  and  scores  of  writers 
of  that  class,  should  not  have  made  their  great  power 
felt  in  a  higher  sphere  of  intellectual  and  moral  teaching. 
It  seems  but  a  melancholy  perversion,  a  sad  waste  that 
such  powers  should  aspire  to  nothing  higher  than  to 
amuse,— and  perhaps  sink  so  low  as  to  demoralize. 


POWER    OF  A  GOOD  LIFE.  203 

the  qualitT      Th«\,„o  •  ^        ^  '™  "'""sea  as  of 

other  wriLoItirndVif Tut  ""^  """"«■  '"e 
that  Sa:nuel  J.m^-J.ilTtTrT^'^^^'^ 
Mge-neither  a  ~„;„t         t  ,        J^"'*'  PhJosopher  or 

mmisW  and  he  pta  0  t^^'T  f  '''^«"»y  brief 

::ef:,r  r&  3^^^^ 

imitation  as  haL  Ze^^  """"P^'  ""^^  °'  »" 
their  powers  theTfi,        ,  *°.™°™»1  consecration  of 

thoughurt'theThadT7,«'''"'^^'  ''^  humiliating 


I?  ? 


204 


THE    FOOT-tBINTS  OP  SATAN. 


pomr  of  a  good  life.     "  We  have,"  says  Dr.  Chalmers, 
"many  ways  of  doing  good  to  our  fellow-oreatures  ;  but 
none  so  efficacious  a    leading  a  virtuous,  upright  and 
well-ordered  life.     There  is  an  energy  of  moral  suasion 
in  a  good  man's  life,  passing  the  highest  efforts  of  the 
orator's  genius.     The  seen  but  silent  beauty  of  hoHness 
speaks  more  eloquently  of  God  and  duty  than  the  tongues 
of  men  and  angels.     Let  parents  remember  this.     The 
best  inheritance  a  parent  can  bequeath  to  a  child  is  a 
virtuous  example,  a  legacy  of  hallowed  remembrances 
and    associations.      The  beauty  of  holiness,  beaming 
through  the  life  of  a  loved  relative  or  friend,  is  more 
effectual  to  strengthen  such  as  do  stand  in  virtue's  ways, 
and  raise  up  those  that  are  bowed  down,  than  precept, 
coinmand,  entreaty  or  warning.     Christianity  itself,  I 
believe,  owes  by  far  the  gieater  part  of  its  moral  power, 
not  to  the  precepts  or  parables  of  Christ,  but  to  his  own 
character.  The  beauty  of  that  holiness  which  is  enshrined 
in  the  four  brief  biographies  of  the  Man  of  Nazareth,  ha^ 
done  more,  and  will  do  more,  to  regenerate  the  world, 
and  bring  in  an  everlasting  righteousness,  than  all  the 
other  agencies  put  together.    It  has  done  more  to  spread 
his  rehgion  in  the  world  than  all  that  has  ever  been 
preached  or  written  on  the  evidences  of  Christianity." 

We  can,  in  the  nature  of  the  case,  take  no  more  than  a 
surface  view  of  the  perversions  to  which  allusion  has  been 
made.  Could  we  penetrate  into  the  secret  springs  of 
action  we  should  be  astonished  to  find  how  little  of  the 
world's  activity  is  as  yet  set  in  motion  by  coiisecrated 
talent. 

We  turn  to  the  learned  professions :  the  gospel  minis- 
try, the  law,  and  medicine.  These  three  professions 
embrace  a  very  large  share  of  the  talent  of  a  nation  ;  and 
of  consequence,  exert  a  very  controlling  influence  on 
every  class  of  a  community.    We  would  that  we  might 


THE  LEARNED  PROFESSIONS. 


205 


pass  hj  the  first  as  too  destitute  of  illustrations  to  detain 
us      But  alas    It  is  not  so.     Though    no    profession 
devotes  so  much  of  its  talent  to  the  real  and  lasting  good 
of  man,  yet  a  tale  too  sad  may  be  told  here.    We  shall 
now  leave  out  of  the  account  the  priestly  orders  of  aU 
false  re  igions,  though  it  is  here  that  we  meet  the  most 
lamentable  perversions  of  talent  anywhere  to  be  found  in 
aU  professional  life.    For  it  is  among  false  rehgions  that 
nearly  all  the  learning  of  a  nation  is  monopolized  by  the 
pnesthood;  and  if  it  be  used,  as  facts  show  it  for  the 
most  part  is.  to  foster  superstition,  to  enslave  mind,  and 
to  crush  liberty,  it  is  one  of  the  most  wholesale,  unblush- 
ing, wicked  perversions  of  talent  and  satanio  malignity 
ever  devised,  or  that  the  Arch-Fiend  ever  practiced 

It  IS  rather  to  the  clerical  profession  as  it  exists  under 
Its  bes  form,  as  the  ministry  of  the  evangelical  church, 
that  reference  is  made.  No  profession,  as  I  said,  devotes 
so  large  a  proportion  of  its  talent  to  the  best  interests  of 
man,  whether  for  time  or  for  eternity.  Yet,  by  one  perver- 
sion or  another,  how  large  deductions  are  we  often 
obliged  to  make  from  the  intellectual  efficiency  they 
might  have  rendered  ;  while  the  most  devoted  class  have 
grievously  to  lament  their  lack  of  entire  consecration  of 
mind,  soul  and  spirit,  to  the  great  work  of  thek  caUing 

The  profession  of  law  is  a  noble  profession.  It  is 
when  taken  as  embracing  jurists  and  judges,  legislators 
ana  executors,  the  guardian  of  some  of  the  highest  and 
dearest  of  man's  earthly  interests.  Man's  relation  to 
man,  and  the  duties  proceeding  from  these  relations  are 
second  only  to  his  relations  and  duties  to  his  God,  and  in 
the  divme  arrangements  they  are  not  separated.  The 
profession  in  question  is  charged  with  these  interests- 
to  define  these  relations  and  to  enforce  these  duties. 
Ihey  are,  m  the  most  extensive  sense,  the  ministers  of 
justice,  to  define,   enforce  and  defend  its  claims.    The 


206 


THE  FOOT-PBINTS  OP  SATAN. 


science  of  government  falls  within  the  sphere  of  their 
high  and  responsible  duties.  And  withal  this  numerous 
class  of  men  possess  a  very  large  share  of  the  talent  of 
our  country,  abundantly  fitting  them  to  meet  duties  so 
onerous  and  honorable.  What  opportunities  has  the 
statesman  to  play  the  patriot  and  use  the  highest  order 
of  talents  for  the  noblest  of  purposes  :  yet  often,  shrink- 
ing in  the  merest  truckling  politician,  his  country  would 
be  the  better  if  he  had  no  talents  at  all. 

And  who  has  a  nobler  field  than  the  lawyer— to  stand 
forth  the  deiender  and  dispenser  of  justice— nobly  to 
serve  his  fellow-men  in  those  mazes  and  intricacies  of  life 
where  most  they  need  a  friend  ?  But  how  often  is  he  the 
worst  friend  justice  has  to  fear ;  he  makes  right  wrong, 
and  his  tender  mercies  are  cruelty. 

If  every  statesman  were  a  true  patriot,  and  every 
politician  a  true  man,  and  every  lawyer  an  honest  jurist, 
soon  would  our  world  be,  at  least  civilly,  socially  and 
commercially,  prepared  for  that  golden  age,  so  often  sung 
by  prophets  and  sighed  for  by  all  who  wait  to  welcome 
the  restitution  of  all  things  through  the  Mediatorial  King. 

I  shall  leave  to  the  sons  of  -^Jsculapius  to  determine 
whether  there  be  among  their  fraternity  any  special  in- 
tellectual waste.    A  very  sacred  trust  is  committed  to 
them ;  and  the  fraternity  embodies  large  treasures  of 
learning  and  bcience— of  native  and  cultivated  talent. 
But  it  is  not  easy  for  the  uninitiated  to  enter  into  the 
penetralia  of  their  ^rt,  and  determine  how  far  the  great 
intellectual  resources  And  the  large  fund  of  experience 
possessed  by  the  craft,  are  made  to  subserve  the  best 
sanitary  interests  of  their  respective  communities.    Has 
the  healing  art  advanced  with  the  advance  of  knowledge 
and  science  ? 

Similar  remarks  will  probably  appear  not  the  less  just 
if  applied  to  general  literaiure.    Of  two  thousand  writers 


INTELLECT  AND  BUSINESS.  207 

in  our  land  one  half  are  writers  of  fiction-a  large  nro 

nn^'  °\*f°P^«-    For  most  of  these  writers  aim  at 
nothing  higher-and  many  of  them  aim  aflL.^- 
vastly  lower.    They  make\  weFtSd  s^l^Tet'to 
"inoculate  a  large  mass  of  mind  with  Tmoll  n  ^ 
mo.  fatal  than  death.     More  minlfare  prXabrr 

rX^oTeUhr^^  '^"°'^^^^^^'  --  --  -« 
Dy  the  novel  than  m  any  or  perhaps  all  other  wavs  •  and 

What  would  be  the  mfluenoe  on  the  world  if  such 

enloroe  tiuth-to  promote  the  mental  and  moral  im 
provement  or  their  readers?    It  would  add  anT^e^I 
pow«  to  our  present  resources  for  the  renovation  ofZ 

.^^iSteT^i»:-:-xr 

carnal  pass.ons.  to  exalt  wickedness  ank  to^t:^^ 

cial  aflfairs  of  the  wnrlH     v^^  f  n       ^.    ^         commer- 

civilization  l^f      ii  i  """^  ^^^'^'^^^  *^«  ^^lue  to 

civihzation  and  to  aU  the  great  movements  of  the  world 

Td^     Withol'tr  ''*  '"'"^'•"^  great  and  beneficent 
ends.    Without  this  agency  not  one  of  the  great  plans  ol 


\m< 


208 


THE    POOT-PRINTS  OP  SATAN. 


human  progress,  and  for  the  extension  of  Christianity, 
can  be  carried  out;  and  were  this  once  to  become  a 
sanctified  agency,  we  could  want  neither  means,  resources 
nor  facihties  for  the  consummation  of  ail  our  purposes  of 
benevolence  for  the  final  regeneration  of  the  world.  But 
nowhere  else  do  we  more  distinctly  trace  the  foot-prints 
of  the  Foe.  Exceptions  we  have  of  merchant  princes, 
and  princely  men  of  business,  who  are  truly  pillars  in  the 
Church,  and  whose  arms  of  benevolence  reach  around 
the  globe.  Yet  how  extensive  and  lamentable  is  the 
perversion!  How  do  the  shrewdest  minds  too  often 
aspire  to  no  higher  function  than  that  of  devising  ways 
and  means  to  overreach,  deceive,  defraud  and  oppress. 

And  science  has  by  no  means  escaped  the  hand  of  the 
destroyer.    It  is  rather  a  painfully  interesting  fact,  that 
some  of  the  most  beautiful  and  valuable  discoveries  of 
modem  science  are  highly  serviceable  to  crime  and  fraud. 
Counterfeiters  and  forgers  seem  to  be  as  much  inclined  to 
use  them,  and  promise  to  be  as  much  benefited  by  them, 
as  honest  men  and  honest  arts.    A    new  process  of 
reproducing  facsimiles  of  manuscript  writing  from  stone, 
was  exhibited  at  the  last  session  of  the  French  Academy 
of  Sciences.      A  M.  Lachard,  in  the  presence  of  that 
body,  requested  some  of  its  members  to  write,  and  sign 
their  names  to  a  few  lines  upon  a  sheet  of  paper.    This 
while  yet  moist  was  placed  by  Lachard  upon  blotting 
paper,  which  he  took  to  his  house,  leaving  the  original  in 
the  hands  of  an  Academician,  M.  Segnier.    The  next 
day  M.  Segnier  and  his  colleagues  received  two  copies  of 
this,  one  upon  parchment  and  the  other  upon  ordinary- 
letter  paper,  so  exactly  like  the  original  in  all  respects,  as 
to  defy  a  stranger  to  the  experiment  to  tell  wh^.ch  of  the 
three  first  was  written— which  were  copies  and  which 
was  the  original.    The  Academy  requested  Lachard  not 
to  make  the  process  of  this  dangerous  discovery  public. 


PERVERSION  OP  MUSIC  AND  SONG 


1   ^  209 

ADd  more  forbiddinff  still  i«  fi,« 
template  the  achemes  of  m^  h Lf  .nd"^^-'"^"  "«  °°°- 
planned  and  e^eeuW  only  by  L„d,         ?•''"''''  "^ 
ness.    TKe  whole  power  JmLZt  ^"  *"  *'"'=*''- 
employed  only  in  schemes  rf^i  1/ «"*'"'' "'»'i«  » 

-ay  that  only'debasSTnd  ^e^^j'-r'  ^^'"^  ^  »»'"» 
of  man.  P'®^'  "?<">  the  best  interests 

iun^S^n'^t^rr :.f:r '^ ''°'  f "^ "  «»'^  "^ 

marble  has  a  voice^lv  ^  •  ""^^'^  ^'''e'-  The 
carries  a  le^oItoVe  i'"^>  ^P^"^^'  ""d  »«" 
But  how  sad  that  tha  Con  a^d  "t^T**  '"  ""^  ''^«'- 
often  serve  only  to  debaHnd  T  1  '"'"■'''  '^""''i  80 
•utionhashereLnstHndeed     BTf^"-    ^''^  P"* 

powers  and  perversions  of  Xo^d  ^  '""'^  °'  ""' 
quite  so  hasty.  ' .  -wMic  and  ««ij  masj  ^^j  ^ 

mittedahnost  toznonopSth^    •,!:''  '"'^  ^"'^  ?«' 
human  mind.    I  hZ^L    IT^^^^  P""*--  ""er  the 
how  extensively  itTs  S  pr^'tuZT"  "  '^'  "^^ 
and  to  persuade  to  evil  raZT.l      !       """"P'' ''«'«^ 
and  to  charm  mto  whl  tgood     t''"^^']"  «'«™'« 
exercises  of  ths  same  power  Tn^       r'"  !^^  ^"8  <"« 
which  we  are  not  likely  tlo^^to  "t  "  *^"  »  P""" 
ly  origin_a  native  of  Paradii  !   V  .    T"  "^  °'  '"'^"en- 
earthly  pilgrimage.to  spTat  1^7'  °«''««'»an  '"  ^ 

strains  of  celeslal'  harony^'d    ^r'^Vt"'*^ 
language  of  the  angelic  choif  ^''''    ^^    *•"« 

extraordinary^„ec'esrof°Me ;:&:  -'  "■■''-•     ^he 
more  especially,  in  its  m,];.!.-  ?        '  '"  °"  country 

tration.    Wesca^e^^t:*';^!"^'"™'*'''  ■»  "'"^ 

mg  had  ae  most  to  do^tl  tif ''  ''""'"^'''S  °'  '""8- 

with  that  success.    The  statet 


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THE    P00T-PBINT8  OP  SATAN. 


man,  the  patriot  and  more  especially  the  politician,  un- 
derstands the  value  to  his  cause  of  the  power  of  song. 
The  demagogue  and  the  military  chieftain,  perhaps,  un- 
lerstand  it  better.  Many  a  revolution  has  greatly  owed 
cs  success  to  the  influence  of  song.  It  is  enough  that 
we  instance  the  Marseillaise  hymn  ;  the  popular  songs 
of  our  own  Bevolution,  Indian  war-songs,  and  the  songs 
and  ballads  which  are  used  to  act  on  the  masses, 
to  stir  them  up  for  some  great  public  movement,  a  riot 
a  war,  an  election.  Song  often  does  more  than  the  pub- 
lic harangue  to  persuade  man  to  good  or  to  evil. 

We  need  no  more  than  allude  to  the  perversion  of  this 
talent.  Most  ruthlessly  has  the  Enemy  invaded  this 
lovely  domain.  We  may  not  attempt  to  determine  how 
large  a  portion  of  music  is  perverted  from  its  natural 
and  legitimate  use — made  the  means  of  debasing,  de- 
moralizing and  exciting  to  all  manner  of  evil  The  per- 
version is  enormous. 

Nor  has  the  field  of  History  been  overlooked  in  the 
devastations  of  the  Foe.  Though  recently  in  a  degree 
recovered  from  the  hand  of  the  Destroyer,  yet  history 
has  been,  to  a  great  extent,  surrendered  to  the  tender 
mercies  of  such  writers  as  Hume  and  Gibbon,  Volney 
and  Voltaire. 

Of  all  the  deadly  onslaughts  made  on  history,  none 
was  ever  more  audacious  than  that  of  the  Bomish  Hie- 
rarchy at  the  present  moment.  In  this  era  of  progress, 
of  light  and  knowledge,  of  civilization  and  religious  and 
civil  liberty,  the  Bomish  Church  is  made  to  feel  that 
there  are  certain  prominent,  glaring,  hideous  features  in 
her  history  which  stand  out  before  the  eyes  of  the 
world,  a  burning  disgrace,  an  indelible  stigma  on  all  de- 
cent humanity.  It  is  the  history  of  the  Inquisition — of 
the  block  and  the  stake — of  murders  and  massacres  and 
persecutions  infernal.    As  seen  through  the  lurid  atmo- 


BOME  BEPDDUTES  HER  OTO  HISTOHY.  211 

sphere  of  the  dark  ages,  they  seemed  but  of  the  earth 

earthy.    Bat  as  the  faithfal  page  of  hUtory  holds  t"em 

up  before  the  eyes  of  a  modern  oivilizalion;  to  say  ZZ 

ng  of  the  hght  of  Christianity,  they  put  to  thT  blush 

he  suooessors  of,  and  the  vouchers  f^hoseVho  pe  pe^ 

trated  these  unearthly  deeds.    No  such  stigma  rests  on 

our  race  as  ,s  to  be  read  iu  the  horrid  tortures  in&ted 

on  the  humble,  unoffending  followers  of  Christen  tte 

days  of  those  Bomish  perseeutions.    The  burnil.  re! 

cord  stands  engraven  on  the  page  of  history,  and  "Iha 

can  they  do  about  it?"  ^ 

They  have  determined  what  to  do      Thfi  fn,il  .«««  j 
must  be  blotted  out.    The  truth  of  history  mtt  bTde 

n.amty  must  be  repudiated.  The  undisputed  facts  of 
oentunes  must  now  be  branded  as  "Protestant  Ues"' 
and  Borne  be  received  as  a  tolerant  Church 

it  ■^Thoul''p'"  ^;r^  r  ""^'"P'^B  "  '»  do  "bout 

tZ  *^'  "' P^'^^^'on  and  blood,  which,  if  she  ha" 
the  power,  she  would  not  do  now,  yet  she  is  deter- 
mined to  .gnore  her  own  history,  if  by  any  means,  fair 
or  fou  ,  she  may  wipe  out  the  stigma  of  the  past,  it  fa 
a  reck  ess  fearless  Devil  that  dares  raise  Us  polluted 
hand  to  blot  out  the  page  of  long-confirmed  U  to^ 
Bu^we  need  not  be  surprised.    No  device  is  left  un- 

But  we  pursue  the  subject  in  this  form  no  further 
Sm  not  only  perverts  thought,  but  is,  .o  a  sad  12Z' 
the  enemy  of  thought.  A  few  very  wicked  men  h^v e 
made  great  adv«>oes  in  learning, have  become sagesZ 

spite  of  then:  bad  moral  character.    Sin  in  aU  its  ^U 
ments  in  all  i,«  actings  and  developmLt's,  is  he  t  t" 
mental  researches  and  acquisitions.    While  on  Uie  otiier 


212 


THE    P00T-PBINT8  OF  SATAN. 


hand,  a  pure  religion  is  the  most  favorable  to  the  culti- 
ration  of  all  sorts  of  useful  learning.  The  peaceful  and 
sanctified  conscience,  which  belongs  to  such  a  religion, 
the  pure  mind  it  secures,  the  good  habits  it  engenders, 
are  all  directly  conducive  to  intellectual  progress  and  at- 
tainments. And  what  is  yet  more  to  our  purpose,  in  re- 
spect to  the  resources  of  knowledge,  fields  of  investiga- 
tion and  materials  of  thought,  the  enlightened  con- 
science and  the  sanctified  mind  have  the  decided 
advantage. 

The  objects  of  all  knowledge— the  entire  field  of  scien- 
tific research,  in  a  sense  more  or  less  direct,  relate  to 
God,  his  works,  his  word,  or  his  ways ;  their  relations  one 
to  another ;   man's  relations  to  them  ;   their  laws  ;   their 
operations,  qualities  or  uses.      Now  shall  we  be  told  that 
the  condition  of  the  mind,  the  state  of  the  conscience  and 
the  aflfections,  and  the  habits  of  the  man,  have  nothing 
to  do  with  the  progress  of  all  true  science?    Is  the 
knowledge,  the  love,  and  the  reverence  of  the  Creator  no 
qualification  to  a  more  ready  and  thorough  acquaintance 
with  his  works  and  his  ways  ?    There  is,  subjectively,  no 
doubt,  a  reason  why  the  pious,  devout  mind  has  a  decided 
advantage  in  the  pursuit  of  any  branch  of  knowledge.  As 
it  is  said,  "  he  that  doeth  the  will  of  God  shall  know  of 
the  doctrine"— he  shall  be  in  a  position,  his  mind  shall  be 
so  guided  that  he  shall  understand  the  tmth  and  know 
what  to  believe,  so  a  mind  right  towards  God  is  in  a  state 
to  understand  and  comprehend  more  of  all  that  pertains 
to  God.    "  The  secret  of  the  Lord  is  with  them  that  fear 
^ii^" — they  that  love  and  honor  God  are  brought  into  a 
position  most  favorable  to  a  knowledge  of  him,  whether  it 
be  of  the  works  of  his  creation  or  of  his  providence  or 
grace. 

The  same  idea  is  conveyed  m  another  expression  of 
the  Psahnist :  "  The  works  of  the  Lord  are  great,  sought 


TRUE  RBSLIQION  AND  SOIENOE. 


213 


out  of  all  them  that  have  pleasure  in  Him."*  DeUght  in 
the  Lord,  complacency  in  his  character,  supreme  admir^ 
tion  and  reverence  are  again,  the  best  possible  qualifioa- 
ions  whxoh  a  mmd  can  bring  to  the  study  of  God's  worl^. 
in  o^her  words,  to  the  pursuit  of  aU  science.  ' 

Whether,  therefore,  the  materials  of  thought,  the  field 
of  mvestigation    or  the  resources  and  preparUness  of 
mmd  be  brought  into  the  account,  we  are  justified  in  the 
conclusion  that  true  science,  that  aU  intellectual  advance- 
ment, finds  Its  only  congenial  field  within  the  domains  of 
apureRehgion.    Sin  is  its  most  formidable  foe.     Did 
we  need  further  confirmation  of  this  we  might  find  it  in 
the  history  of  useful  learning  as  it  has  existed  under  th^ 
auspices  of  different  forms  of  Religion.    It  is  here  safe  to 
affirm  that  practical,  useful  learning  has  nowhere  fomid 
a  oongemal  atmosphere  except   under  the  protecting 
fostermg  care  of  a  pure  religion.    Nowhere  else  is  generd 
mtelligence  encouraged  and  the  masses  educated,  ^d  no- 
where else  IS  knowledge  and  science  to  any  extent  made 
practical.  And,  what  strengthens  this  position,  is  that  the 
histoiy  of  those  nations  over  which  false  religions  hold 
away,  shows  tiiat  those  which  incorporate  the  most  of 
teuth  m  them  and  consequently  approach  nearest  to  a  true 
rehgion,  ^e  the  most  prolific  in  the  useful  arts  and 
sciences ;  while  those  at  the  other  extreme  are  the  most 
barren.  ^»ou 

It  is  not  intended  here  to  deny  that  Egypt,  Greece  and 
Rome,  did,  though  they  were  idolatrous  nations,  produce 
some  truly  learned  men.  But  it  is  intended  to  assume 
that  these  learned  men  were  in  no  sense  the  products  of 
false  rehgious  systems.  They  were  the  merest  exceptions 
from  the  ignorant  masses :  and  more,  it  is  intended  to 
assume  that  the  Platos,  the  Senecas,  the  Socrates  and 


•  According  to  Stbeet,  who  translates  "in  Him,"  instead  of  "  therein" 
as  IS  rendered  in  King  James*  Bible. 


214 


THE  F00T-PIUNT8  OF  SATAN. 


Aristotles  of  those  nations  were,  in  connection  with 
their  intellectual  culture,  and  in  consequence  of  it, 
emancipated  from  the  shackles  which  kept  in  mental 
bondage  the  mass  of  their  pagan  countrymen.  As  they 
penetrated  into  the  deep  things  of  nature  and  of  mind, 
they  discovered  there  was  a  God  of  nature  and  of  mind, 
raised  infinitely  above  all  the  gods  which  the  masses  of 
their  countrymen  so  ignorantly  worshipped. 

Pagan  idolatry  has  drawn  over  its  intellectual  empire 
a  cloud  almost  impenetrable  and  well-nigh  universal. 
Yet  in  defiance  of  which  a  little  light  has  shined,  and  a 
few  minds  been  enlightened.  Mohammedanism  lias  ad- 
mitted more  light,  and  the  papacy  yet  more ;  and  learn- 
ing has  prospered  in  the  same  proportion — owing  noth- 
ing, in  either  case,  to  a  false  religion,  but  to  the  Truth, 
which,  in  spite  of  all  systems  of  error,  has  wrought  out 
such  a  result. 


X. 


THE  PERYEESION  OF  WEALTH. 


MONEY  A  POWER  IN  THE  HANDS  OF  THE  GREAT  ADVERSARY 
—THE  COST  OF  SIN— PRIDE— AMBITION—WAR— LUXURY— 
EXTRAVAGANCE  —  RUM— TOBACCO— OPIUM  ;  WITH  FACTS 
AND  FIGURES  OF  EACH. 

Money  is  power.    And  no  power  perhaps  exerts  a 
more  universal  empire  over  the  human  mind.    When 
honestly  gotten  and  properly  used,  it  is  a  power  for  good 
scarcely  second  to  any  other.     If  perverted  it  is  a  mighty 
power  for  evil.    Money  is  the  motive  power  of  commerce ; 
and  the  right  arm  of  the  arts  and  sciences.    It  gives 
wings  to  the  gospel,  speeding  the  angel  of  mercy,  with 
healing  in  his  wmgs,  on  his  blessed  mission  around  the 
world.    There  is  not  at  the  present  moment  a  more 
practical  question,  if  there  be  a  more  important  one,  than 
tha  t  of  the  right  use,  or  comecration  of  property.    Fidelity, 
as  touching  the  unrighteous  mammon,  is  a  virtue  of  very 
high  order,  but  of  rare  attainment.    Defection  here  is  but 
too  common  and  almost  universal.     Money,  in  the  pre- 
sent position  of  the  world's  regeneration,    is    a    very 
essential  agency.    Here  too  it  is  the  sinews  of  war.    All 
sorts  of  reforms  must  be  effected.    Men,  in  vastly  greater 
number,  must  be  sent  abroad  to  evangelize  the  nations. 


Ml: 


,     ' 


I4f 


216 


THE  FOOT-PRINTS  OP  SATAN. 


Schools  and  all  the  needed  appliances  of  education  must 
be  sustained  on  a  vastly  enlarged  scale.  The  press  must 
enter  upon  a  mission  of  unprecedented  magnitude  and 
magnificence ;  and  all  the  agencies  for  a  higher  type  of 
civilization  and  Christianity  must  be  furnished.  The 
demand  for  pecuniary  resources  is  perhaps  at  the  present 
moment  more  imperative  than  any  other. 

We  design,  in  this  chapter,  to  present  a  few  facts, 
illustrating  the  dominant  power  of  sin  and  Satan,  in  the 
misuse  and  perversion  of  wealth.  And  in  no  other  way 
perhaps  can  we  mora  vividly  portray  the  dreadful  depre- 
dations sin  is  making  on  the  happiness,  the  health,  the 
mind,  the  life  and  the  soul  of  man.  But  we  shall  allow, 
in  the  discussion  of  the  theme,  considerable  latitude. 

There  is  a  guilty  perversion  of  wealth  when  it  is 
devoted  to  purposes  decidedly  sinful,  as  in  the  case  of 
offensive  war,  intemperance,  licentiousness,  gambhng  and 
the  like.    And  there  is  the  culpable  perversion  of  the 
same,  to  purposes  which  in  themselves  may  be  right  and 
proper,  and  wrong  only  in  the  excess,  as  in  the  matter  of 
amusements,  extravagance,  waste,  pride,  luxury.    It  will 
not  always  be  easy  here  to  discriminate  between  the 
lawful  and  the  unlawful.    But  we  shall  have  no  need  to 
msist  on  doubtful  cases.    Those  obvious  and  conceded 
will  suffice  for  our  general  illustration— will  indicate  but 
too  clearly  how  smaU  a  portion  of  the  world's  wealth  is 
devoted  to  purposes  really  human  or  benevolent ;  or  that 
even  minister  to  the  common  weal  of  man— to  his  im- 
provement or  happmess.    The  proportion  prostituted  to 
purposes  decidedly,  temporaUy,  and  eternally  hurtful  to 
man,  is,  as  we  show,  fearfully  immense. 

But,  be  it  understood,  we  enter  on  no  crusade  against 
riches.  They  are  good— to  be  desired  and  sought  for. 
The  great  sin  of  the  world  is  not  that  all  men  are  anxious 
to  be  rich.     Nothing  is  more  laudable—^  riches  be 


USE  AND  ABUSE  OP  WEALTH.  217 

sought  in  a  proper  manner  and  for  right  ends     T\^  oil 

thJh»„r  ™*''  "^  "«J»^«fi«a  in  ae  inference 

tbat  he  who  p^es  a  course  that  mu8t  inevitably  make 
and  keep  him  poor  has  the  greater  sin     Tl.„!  ■ 

Wealth,  mdced,  is  a  needful  auxiliary  to  the  proeres^^ 

dependent^':rpe:Lt/rie?  1;^^'^'"'^^ 
understands  this;  and  hence rZy  deTici  ZerTe^ 

^.s^t^ettZictrt  £?iE-^ 


218 


THE    POOT-PRINTS  OF  SATAN. 


is  perverted  and  made  not  to  honor  but  to  dishonor  thb 
great  Giver;  not  to  bless  but  to  curse  man  : 

I.  Pride,  fashion,  love  of  show,  ambition,  simplj  to 
outdo  others,  absorbs  an  untold  amount,  of  money. 
After  making  the  most  generous  deductions,  in  myriads 
of  families  in  the  land,  for  the  necessaries  and  comforts  of 
life,  whether  for  food  or  raiment,  houses  or  equipage,— im- 
mense sums,  the  lion's  share  of  the  domestic  expenditure, 
are  to  be  put  to  the  account  of  sheer  fashion  or  pride. 

Startling  sums  are  swallowed  up  in  the  yawning  gulf  of 
extravagance  and  luxury.  We  not  unfrequently  hear  of 
the  great  sums  expended  to  carry  out  the  few  plans  of 
benevolence  which  find  a  place  in  this  world  of  ours. 
But  how  perfectly  insignificant  these  compared  with  the 
vast  amounts  squandered  in  senseless  extravagance,  or  in 
useless,  if  not  hurtful  luxuries.  All  expended  for  the 
mere  charities  of  our  age,  all  employed  to  carry  out 
plans  of  education,  reform,  or  benevolence  in  any  form, 
is  insignificant,  the  mere  dust  of  the  balance,  when  com- 
pared with  the  immense  amounts  which  go  to  pamper 
and  support  extravagance  and  pride.  Many  a  Christian 
yields  his  thousands  to  fashion  or  pride  while  he  does 
not  give  as  many  units  to  the  claims  of  philanthropy  or 
religion.  Many  a  church  has  her  hundreds  of  thousands 
invested  in  costly  edifices  and  decorations  of  her  sanctu- 
ary while  she  gives  less  hundreds  to  the  spiritual  interests 
of  religion,  or  to  th6  substantial  good  of  man. 

We  can  scarcely  turn  the  eye  amiss  to  meet,  in  common 
life,  all  sorts  of  examples  of  uselessly  profuse  expenditure 
—the  wicked  perversion  of  the  Lord's  silver  and  gold. 
Yet  we  shall  reserve  a  survey  of  the  more  profuse  and 
luxuriant  expenditures  to  another  chapter;  such  as  regal 
extravagance,  and  the  silly  extravagance  of  those  who 
ape  royalty ;  attempting  here  little  more  than  to  enter  the 
confines  of  the  field. 


EXIBATAOANCE  AND  OHARITr.  219 

reclf  "^7  •*'"  °"*°  "''«'"'«^»>7  P^digal  of  toe.    A 

»^li   »     f  T  ^^'"  ^''""""  '»'''  atte«oled  some 
special  atteaohon,  boUi  on  account  of  the  profuse  exZ 

tT:Z  ''n  '"^  IT '^^  -"  Poeit-'of'ZS 
^^^k!  M  uJ"^  "'  the  "palatial  residence"  of  the 
redoubtable  •■  Boss  Tweed,"  and  the  happy  bride  was  H„ 
daughter.  Sere  we  shaU  cease  to  won^^r  auLTxt^a 
va^ut  amounts  absorbed  in  grounds,  house  st^e" 
and  now  in  profuse  expenditures  for  the  weddin--  when 

here  certain  unmistakable  "footprints"  are,  if  possible 
more  apparent  in  the  ,*•„,,  than  in  the  spendin'g     But 

rtftfZlgr-'^""''-  '"«'''*'    ^^ 

The  decoration  of  the  interior  of  the  house  presented 

a  marvellous  scene  of  floral  magnificence.   Over  toe  di^^ 

of  the  ^eat  parlors  on  one  side  of  the  entranc'e  haU  hung 

made„f!,l!r;T  "^  P""""  P'*'"'"^  inaU  directions 
made  of  white  tuberoses  and  crimson  roses  and  japonicas 
On  the  other  side,  in  corresponding  position    hunga 

tZt  :  f'  --«  flo--  wrougV  into  ornamental 
devices  and  showmg  the  letters  M.  and  T.  in  scarlet 
^ong  the  centre  of  thehaU  depended  masse"  ot^M 

r^^r?L      7'°    "•'  ""''^y^  ^    «»«    tall,  were 

^vhite   edged  ms.de  and  out  with  white  roses     In  the 
reception-room  on  the  right  of  the  entrance-door,  one  of 

basket  of  flowera  at  least  a  yard  in  diameter.  On  the 
toantel  and  staad,  on  the  ohandeUer,  eveiywhere  flowed 
met  the  eye.  Even  the  grate  was  a  soUd  bed  of  exotic^ 
It  would  be  impossible  by  details  toeonveyan  idea  o^ 
the  marveUous  quantities  of  expensive  flowers  which  met 
tlie  eje  eveiywhere. 


220 


THE  FOOT-PRINTS  OP  SATAN. 


The  presents  were  a  chief  centre  of  attraction  to  the 
guests.    They  filled  an  entire  room  when  crowded  close. 
There  were  forty  silver  sets,  any  one  of  which  would  have 
attracted  a  crowd  if  placed  in  a  jeweler's  window,  and 
one  single  one    contained-  240    separate    pieces.    Mr 
James  Fisk,  Jr.,  sent  a  frosted  silver  contrivance  repre- 
senting an  iceberg,  evidentiy  intended  to  hold  ice-cream 
orsomeequaJly  frigid  substance.    The  association  was 
beautifully  sustained  by  the  presence  of  Arctic  bears  re- 
posmg  on  the  icicle  handles  of  the  bowl  and  cUmbing  up 
the  spoons.    Singularly  enough,  Mr.  Fisk  displayed  the 
same  taste  as  Superintendent  K.,  and  their  offerings 
were  exact  dupUcates.    There  were  forty  pieces  of  jewehy, 
of  which  fifteen  were  diamond  sets.    A  single  one  of  the 
latter  is  known  to  have  cost  $45,000.     It  contained 
diamonds  as  big  as  filberts.    A  cross  of  eleven  diamonds, 
pea  size,  bore  the  name  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  W.  G.  as 
donors.    A  pm  of  sixty  diamonds,  representing  a  siJkle 
and  sheaves  of  wheat,  was  the  gift  of  J.  H.  I.    P.  B.  S.'s 
card  appeared  on  diamond  bracelets  of  fabulous  magni- 
ficence.   C.  0.  gave  a  ring  with  a  tmy  watch  as  the  seal. 
Bronzes,  thread  lace.  Cashmere  shawls,  rare  pictures 
everything  that  could  be  conceived  of  which  is  rich  and 
costly  filled  the  room  with  splendor. 

The  trousseau  of  the  bride  was  superb,  the  materials 
being  of  the  finest  quality,  and  obtained  from  a  leading 
Broadway  dry-goods  house.  They  were  of  the  most  cos^ 
ly  description,  and  the  labor  in  preparing  them  con- 
sumed nearly  two  months.  The  dresses  were  models  of 
elegance,  and  the  most  refined  taste,  and  a  carie  blanche 
was  given  the  maker,  with  the  simple  injunction  that  the 
outfit  should  be  « the  richest  ever  produced,  and  fit  for  a 
Princess." 

The  wedding-dress  was  composed  of  white  gros  grain 
with  a  train  three  and  a  half  yards  in  length,  and  was' 


A  BBIDAL  DBE9S  AHD   ODTFIT. 


221 


front  of  the  skirt  waa  out  with  a  deep  seoUop,  and  the 

over-slort  consisted  of  h«=e,  ornamented  wift   ora^e 

flowers.    The  pnoe  of  the  material  and  labor  requ^eTin 

makmg  and  tnmmingthis  dr«s  was  $1,000,  makmg  wi  S 

the  lace,  a  total  cost  of  $5,000.  '  """""g'  ""n 

The  other  dresses  forming  the  trousseau  were  fourteen 

jn  number,  and  aU  elegant  and  designed  in  the  mosTT 

tot.0  manner.    First  there  was  a  blkck  walking  suit  in 

heavy  rich  gros  grain,  in  which  thirty-five  yards  of  silt 

were  used.    It  was  trimmed  with  two  pieces  of  A^ tuiy 

guipure  and  two  pieces  of  rich  heajy  Cluny.    S 

hundred  and  eighty-two  bows  were  usedin  the  trimmtl 

rfl  r  7rf""f  t"'''  sidepleatingthe  whole  wid^h 
of  .the  sknt  front,  and  the  train  was  white,  mingled  artisti 
oaUy  with  black.  This  dress  cost  $700  '  """^M  artisti- 
Next  was  a  brown  walking  suit  of  thirty-two  yards  of 
brown  sUk  costing  $600.  Anotherwalkingdress  of  forty! 
two  yards  of  blue- striped  silk,  costing  $350 :  a  black  and 
white  silk  walking  suit  of  thirty-fiye  yards,  costing  $400 : 
a  town  walkmg  suit,  containing  fifty  yards,  at  a^ost  o 
WOO,  a  purple  silk  reception  dress,  thirty  yards,  $900 : 

cost  !1)1,U00.     The  total  for  dresses  $6,200 

The  whole  closed  by  a  magnificent  dinner  got  up  by 
Delmomco ;  aU  that  art  and  money  could  do  ^ 

We  make  no  attempt  to  sum  up  the  aggregate  of  the 
expense  Not  by  tens,  but  by  hundreds'of 'thousands! 
must  It  be  reckoned.  But  it  is  pleasant  to  know  tha 
the  right  parties  paid  the  biUs.  IJi^st  appropriately  did 
the  bride  share  largely  in  the  munificence  of  L  "  Bhi^" 
Each  bestowmg  bountifuUy  as  their  lord  and  master  had 
prospered  them. 

II.  Ambition  is  a  voracious  demon  that  awaUows  up 
perhaps  a  yet  larger  amount  of  wealth.    Here,  especially. 


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are  traced  the  footprints  of  the  great  Destroyer.  Indeed 
a  large  proportion  of  the  profuse  expenditure  which 
passes  under  the  name  of  extravagance,  is  but  a  homage 
done  to  ambition.     Millions  trly  expended,  which 

contribute  little  or  nothing,  #i  ^o  convenience  or  com- 
fort, and  have  not  so  much  as  the  plea  of  luxury.  The 
chief  motive  is  to  outdb  others. 

But  we  shall  at  present  contemplate  ambition  rather 
in  its  wider  and  more  absorbing,  devastating  sphere  of 
^  action.    Ambition  is  but  the  natural,  the  common  parent 
of  strifes,  contentions,  rivahies,  hatred,  bitterness  and 
revenge ;  which,  when  matured  into  fightings,  Utigations 
and  murders,  begm  to  make  up  their  bills  from  whose 
enormous  demands  there  is  no  discharge.    But  not  till 
matured  into  the  grand  and  dreadful  consummation  of 
WAR,  do  we  fully  realize  the  uncounted  waste.    War  is 
ambition's  dearest  progeny.    The  cost  of  a  .single  war 
would  renovate   our  sin-stricken  earth  and  make  it  a 
paradise  in  a  single  year.    All  other  expenditures  of  am- 
bition fall  into  insignificance  when  compared  with  the  cost 
of  war.    Attempts  to  calculate  the  immense  sums  expend- 
ed in  wav  induce  the  feeling  that  our  giant  Foe  has  here 
monopolized  the  wealth  of  the  world.    A  few  startling 
items,  in  addition  to  what  has  been  presented  in  another 
connection,  will  serve  as  examples. 

Three  wars  of  Great  Britain  in  India,  from  1827  to 
1847,  cost  the  nation  $195,000,000 ;  besides  the  expend- 
iture of  another  amount  perhaps  as  great,  during  the  same 
period,  in  then:  wars  in  Burmah,  China,  and  India. 

The  Crimean  war  cost  the  alHes  (England,  France 
and  Turkey)  $400,000,000,  to  say  nothing  of  the  usual 
annual  supplies  for  the  army  and  navy ;  the  vast  destruc- 
tion of  property  and  a  loss  not  less  disastrous,  of 
productive  industry.  And  the  expense  of  the  same  war 
on  the  part  of  Russia  is  believed  to  have  been  at  least 


AMBITION  A  COSTLY  DEMON.  £23 

honest  .rite,  .t  /25;/4j:Xt  t  eS'S  ■"■• 
expenses  oeoasioned  by  the  war  C/  f  [  "^'^^^ 
the  wiUful  or  .eoessa^^dtti tf  ;;„pet  Ttl," 
rate,  the  war  must  have  cost  Russia  half  ?«  v  ^ 
OS  the  Allies,  and  $600  000  nm  5  """'''  "S"^" 
account.    But  a  We  portly  T        ''°l^'^^-  'he 

buildings,  ships,  piCrmeidira' d"r  "\^  " 
serious  in  the  W  run  .r*!:  ™™™andise,  and  though  as 

it  will  be  longer  to  ZJm!  Tf  ^'  °'  '"'^'^  ""*. 

^irt^?a5S£?t^-- 

and  contractor  on  a:Z':':?tC:;°  VC^ 

r ih^^t  -\tstrr;  "^  ^"'^  ■"  ^— ^»- 

hundred  milUonsofdolll^r  """'«'«'»''<""  sewn 

and  agriouC  i:^  e  "  »ded™bv  r  f  ^^  *"""  *''«'« 
prosecution  of  the  war  ^        belligerents  in  the 

derir^^t  al'^ierrrT  rv-'^  ^^  -^ "« 

comes  of  the  whoCcoVof  Gret  Brir"'''  T^^  *"- 
are  only  supposed  to  amount  Lfi.  ^  *°^  ^"'""J 
equal  ti  (iree  foMthsTC  w  f  !  '^°""  ""  "'"°''-  » is 
which  the  Houro^Hanl  ?  V  ^"''"'''  "-"J" 
many  a  yearTmore  than  Zlf  T  ^'  ^°"  '°"«™8  '"s 
twice  the  debt  orstsL  n„  to  wt"'"  "'','  "'  ^^^^^ 
the  average  assets  olZ  slk  of  S^r^th""  ""^^ 
day ;  and  more  than  fourteen  Z.«  ,     ^^  P"^"^^"' 

aationa,  debt  of  the  oSltn  ^tute  ^r  ^ 

the  sums  aL%  e  JnM  bv  ^t™r ""''''°'' °*    " 
Europe  in  -PPo^^iKte^mpX   bSth  " 
raised  by  neutral  powers  in  corJ^Zoe^^te^'Z 


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THE  FOOT-PRINTS  OF  SATAN. 


This  is  only  an  approximation,  as  the  writer  says  that  it 
is  impossible  to  estimate  the  absolute  cost  of  a  war,  since 
its  influence  on  trade  and  industry,  though  immense,  is 
indefinite.  Austria,  about  $100,000,000;  France,  $100,- 
000,000 ;  Piedmont,  $20,000,000 ;  other  Italian  States,  $4,- 
000,000;  Bussia,  $6,000,000;  England,  $4,400,000;  Ger- 
many, $25,600,000 :  making  a  total  of  $260,000,000. 

Or  we  may  approximate  the  point  from  another  class 
of  statistics.  Look  for  a  moment  at  the  expense  of 
"  standing  armies,"  or  "  peace  estabhshments." 

Before  the  outbreak  of  the  late  European  wars,  the 
"  peace  estabhshments  "  of  the  five  principal  States  were 
reported    at    1,825,000    men;    Great    Britain,  300,000; 
France,  350,000 ;  Eussia,  750,000 ;  Austria,  275,000  and 
Prussia  150,000  ;  and  at  an  annual  cost  of  $600,000,000. 
And  if  the  other  States  be  added  it  would  swell  the 
number  of  men  to  2,800,000.    And  if  we  estimate  the  ex- 
pense of  each  soldier  at  $500  a  year,  and  the  annual  loss 
to  productive  industry  at  $150    for  each,  we    should 
then  have  an  aggregate  of  $1,400,000,000,  and  a  loss  of 
services  to  the  industry  of  the  country  of  $420,000,000  j 
or  a  grand  total  of  $1,820,000,000.    And  if  we  may  esti- 
mate the  average  hfe  of  a  soldier  at  ten  years,  we  should 
find  that  five  nations  are  paying,  in  time  of  peace,  simply 
for  military  service,  the  enormous  sum  of  $6,000,000,000 
every  ten  years ;  and  including  the  huge  collaterals  we  have 
named  for  time  lost  and  industry  deranged,  the  amount 
reaches  the  inconceivable  aggregate  of  $18,000,000,000. 
And  this,  not  to  prosecute  war,  but  simply  to  keep  them- 
selves in  readiness  for  war. 

Yet  the  above  estimate  is  but  a  fraction  of  the  number 
of  the  regular  armies  of  Europe  in  the  days  of  wars  and 
rumors  of  wars,  (1870-71.)  Italy  is  said  to  have  an  army 
of  900,000;  France,  1,200,000;  Russia,  1,400,000;  Aus- 
tria, 1,200,000   and    the   German   Empire,    1,300,000: 


STAironiO  AEMIEB  DJ  TIME  OP  PE40E.  226 

making  m  aggregate,  with  the  contingents  of  several  of 
the  Enropeau  States,  of  seven  millions  of  meT  lot 
^1  more  than  double  the  enormo»  expenditure  Tbove 
reported.  One  nnaooustomed  to  keep  an  eye  on  such 
matters  won  d  form  very  inadequate  notionrof  fte Tx 
k^r.T  °""™  P--P««orving  neutral  oor'y 
for  the  same  purposes.  During  the  last  fifty  years  lr,Z 
r^ous  to  our  late  war,)  and  those  mostly  years  of  Mace 
n^Zlm^T^  '"r  "  ''"  U^tates"  co'SX 

$209  994mn    p'^'    ^!.  T'^  ""^  '"'™'  operations 
rlt^-   I^^nsions,  $61,170,000.   The  iidi^  deoart 

$n  VWo"'"^-  Jr'  *■';  ''"y  "PoblicaTsZt 

from  mfi  T'  1«?I^*     LP""*""  °'  """  '""^  P«"°d.  say 
from  1816  to  1834-e.ghteon  yeax-s  of  peace-and  onr 

neX  $4nft'Znnrr'r''  .*"  »*«8.000,000,  of  which 
nearly  $400,000,000,  about  six  sevenths  of  the  whole 
were  for  war  purposes.    It  is  estimated  that  the  su^rt 

000,000,000  a  year,  besides  the  interest  on  her  war  debt^ 

ImZZT*'°-!?-'^''^-    ^"'twenty  ;elt'm 

$1 L  mn        T"'  ^°l^"  P-'To^^  ^''"'^  »««  than 
$1,000,000  every  day.    The  wars  of  all  Euroue  trnm  1 7«« 

to  1815,  cost  $15,000,000,000.  '^^  "** 

mdtr^^^jT'  ""'  ""'^  P'oonringoanse  of  strifes 
and  war.    Eetabation-r«ie»je,  like  the  "  t»neue  "  is  ■'  a 
fire,  a  world  of  iniquity.    It  settoth  on  fire  thfciurse  of 
nature ;  and  it  is  set  on  fire  of  hell."    The  spi^t™  re 
venge,  often  maturing  and  culminating  in  wars  the  mo"t 

most  fearful  mroads  .nto  the  domain  of  wealth.    To  this 

ZZ\r  T  '''  ^7"  """  "  '^^  "'  "■«  ^^  that  have 
cursed  the  nations  and  wasted  their  treasures ;  and  not » 

few  of  he  htigations  and  lawsuits  that  lay  waste  hkefte 
devonnng  locusts,  the  fair  heritage  of  man 
Would  we  appreciate  the  difference  in  the  expense  of 

15 


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THE  FOOT-PRINTS  OF  SATAN. 


fighting  and  exterminating  a  people,  or  of  civilizing  and 
christianizing  them,  we  may  find  an  illustration  in  our 
connection  and  dealings  with  the  North  American  Indians. 
The  commissioner  states  the  humiliating  fact,  that'since 
the  first  appropriation  by  the  Indian  Bureau  for  educa- 
tional purposes  in  1806,  only  $8,000,000  have  been  expen- 
ded for  this  object,  and  at  least  five  hundred  millions  for 
Indian  wars.  He  estimates  our  total  Indian  population 
at  380,629  persons,  of  whom  95,000  are  of  school  age. 
Only  153  schools  are  known  to  be  in  operation,  with 
6,024  scholars.  The  total  appropriations  by  Congress,  and 
others  for  this  current  year  for  this  purpose  are  $289,000. 

III.  The  bottomless  Pit,  whose  remorseless  maw 
devours  more  treasure  than  even  devastating  war,  is  in- 
temperance. The  amount  of  money  engulphed  here  is, 
as  we  have  elsewhere  shown,"  beyond  all  calculation. 
Additional  facts  may  be  adduced.  The  intoxicating 
drink  itself  is  but  an  item.  The  buildings  and  aU  the 
needful  appliances  for  conducting  the  trafl&c ;  the  time  of 
the  traffickers  and  the  consumers ;  the  loss  and  destruction 
of  property  ;  injury  done  to  industry,  trade  and  com- 
merce, all  come  in,  as  we  have  seen,  to  swell  the  amount 
beyond  all  decent  bounds.  Great  Britain  has  paid  more 
for  intoxicating  drinks  the- last  ten  years  than  the  whole 
amount  of  her  vast  national  debt — ^which  is  X1,000,000,- 
000— or  $500,000,000  annually. 

This  estimate  is  believed  to  be  quite  withm  bounds. 
We  have  seen  the  following  statement  as  touching  simply 
the  cost  of  liquors  consumed  in  Great  Britain  and  Ireland 
for  1870 ;  and  it  will  be  seen  that  the  total  leaves  but  a 
small  margin  for  all  collateral  wastes.  Great  Britain 
stands  charged  with  the  annual  consumption  of  29,000,* 
000  gallons  of  home  and  foreign  spirits,  at  a  cost  of  $150,- 
000,000 ;  with  750,000,000  gallons  of  beer,  at  $218,750,- 
000;    with  15,000,000  gallons  of  foreign  and  colonial 


RUM  THE  GREAT  DESTROYER. 


227 


™''l*rn^l''^  $65,000,000;  and  cider  and  domestic 
Z2!oZTr  *'*f.  °'  ^^1'250,000-which  leaves 

_    We  already  have  an  average  of  sixteen  dollars  ior  every 
inhabitant  of  the  kingdom  ;  or  sixty-five  doUars  for  each 

We  seem  to  approach  nearer  to  the  root  of  the  evil  and 
to  be  able  the  better  to  appreciate  the  wicked  perversion 
of  the  good  hmgs  of  our  heavenly  Father  when  we  come 
to  inquire  whence  are  these  intoxicating  drinks  ?     Come 
they  of  the  thorn  and  the  brier  ?    Are  they  manufactured 
from  earth  s  poisons,  that  they  should  be  the  vicegerents 
of  sin  and  Satan,  to  spread  death  and  all  its  woes  among 
thechUdrenof  men?    Are  they  compounded,  decocted 
and  dcmonized   from  earth's  vilest  products,  and  thus 
fitted  only  for  the  work  of  devastation  and  woe?    No  • 
the  great  Perverter  of  all  good  here  shows  the  dire  per- 
fection of  aU  his  wicked  devices  among  the  children  of 
men,-that,  by  the  most  heaven-provoking  perversion  of 
one  of  heaven  s  most  precious  gifts  to  man,  he  produced 
the  fatal  drmk  which  curses  and  kills,  out  of  grain,  the 
staff  of  life,  which  our  bountiful  Parent  gav€  as  the  great- 
est temporal  gih  to  man.     In  Great  Britain  fifty  mUhons 
of  bushels  of  grain  are  annually  used  to  make  drunkards 
paupers  and  criminals.    And  a  yet  larger  quantity  is,  in 
the  Umted  States,  in  like  manner  perverted,  from  beW 
man  s  greatest  blessirg  to  ba  his  greatest  curse 

Or  confine  we  our  calculations  to  a  single  city,  and  what 
Idea  do  we  get  of  the  criminal  waste  of  intemperance  in 
Its  current  history  of  a  smgle  year  I  Supposing  the  daily 
sales  at  tiie  8,000  hotels,  drinking  saloons  and  grogshops 
m  the  city  ol  New  York  average  $10  each<-whioh  is  a 

loYoZnf ''°'^*^~*^^  *^°"°*  ^^"^^^  be  $80,000  a  day ; 
$2,400,000  a  montii ;  $28,800,000  a  year.    And  this  ri 


228 


THE    FOOT-PRINTS  OF  SATAN. 


presents  scarcely  more  than  one  half  of  the  actual  waste 
of  intomperanoe  in  that  one  city.  We  should  not  have  to 
go  far  in  estimating  property  destroyed,  trade  injured, 
industiy  impaired,  and  time  of  the  traffickers  and  drinkers 
wasted,  and  we  should  reach  another  aggregate  quite  as 
large. 

Some  one  has  given  us  the  following  brief  summary  of 
the  Devil's  doings  in  this  line  of  his  devastating  march, 
in  Ireland  in  a  single  year.  The  writer  calls  it  the  "  De- 
vil's harvest."  It  is  a  brief  record  of  rum's  doings 
from  year  to  year.    The  record  says  : 

In  Ireland,  whiskey,  wine  and  beer  are  largely  con- 
sumed. The  popular  drmk  is  whiskey,  and  almost  all  the 
crime  of  the  country  is  charged  upon  it.  In  1868,  76,000 
persons  were  arrested  for  drunkenness.  The  consumption 
was  5,036,814  gallons  of  domestic  spirits,  and  325,995  gal- 
lons of  foreign  spirits,  with  1,208,233  gaUons  of  beer,  and 
1,638,209  barrels  of  wine,  costing  in  all  $40,813,785,  or  an 
average  of  $37.50  lor  every  family.  But  England  and 
Scotland  are  no  better. 

And  all  this  misery  entailed,  and  all  this  ruin,  poverty, 
affliction  and  death  imposed  at  such  an  expense  to  the 
country,  and  what  return  does  she  receive  ?  And  this  sim- 
ply the  wholesale  cost  of  the  damning  beverage,  or  the  first 
item  in  the  appalling  account 

The  Chicago  Tribune  has  an  article  on  the  amount 
of  money  paid  annually  by  the  people  of  the  United 
States  for  spirituous  liquors  and  tobacco,  the  statistics 
of  which  are  startling.  We  make  the  following  extracts, 
and  call  the  attention  of  domestic  as  well  as  political  eco- 
nomists to  the  record : 

"  There  is  one  expenditure  which  we  never  hear  these 
declaimers  refer  to,  or  advocate  a  reduction  of,  viz.,  the 
money  spent  for  Uquors,  We  invite  their  attention  to  the 
statement  of  the  Special  Bevenue  Commissioner,  Mr. 


TOTAL  AMOUNT  OF  SALES. 


229 


Welk,  in  his  report  to  Congress,  giving  the  amount  paid 
out  by  the  people  for  spirituous  and  malt  liquors  diixin« 
the  year  867.  We  do  not  refer  to  the  sales  by  whoT/. 
sale,  but  to  those  at  retail,  sworn  to  by  the  retaUers,  who 
have  paid  the  hcense  tax  on  their  sales.     We  give  the 

i\  ^.u^*!*'"'  ^'^^  ^^^  ^8^^^«  '«P'«««"t  the  amount 
paid  by  he  drinkers  and  consumers  to  the  retailers  over 
the  counter ; 

AMOUNT  OF  SALES  OF  RETAIL  LIQUOR  DEALERS. 

^^^°'^-: $246,617,620 

Pennsylvania 152,663,495 

^'^""'^ 119,933,946 

^^"""l 151.734,875 

Massachusetts 27,979.576 

^^^^'^""^ 40,661,620 

f^*^" 54,627,866 

Jff^!^^*-. 61,418,890 

^^^tT 69,924,090 

^^''^^^^y 60,223,116 

^'^^^^^^ 43,818,846 

f'^^'fi^^ 62,784,170 

n";": 36,582,695 

Connecticut 35,001,230 

I'^'^^'^^y 42,468,740 

nnrr-' 8,257,016 

Rhodelsland 10,234,240 

New  Hamsphn:e 12,629,176 

^.77,'^-- 14,394,970 

Dist.  Columbia 10,376,450 

J^^^^'^^ 6,786,066 

?*°r 8,603,866 

J;°"^^^« 48,021,730 

^^^".««^« 20,283,636 

^'""'^^ 26,328465  ' 


230  THE   rOOT-PMNTS  OP  SATAN. 

I 

Virginia 26,132,905 

Alabama 23,025,385 

Texas 21,751,250 

South  Carolina 10,610,625 

North  Carolina 13,224,34:0 

West  Virginia 8,806,235 

Arkansas 7,858,320 

Delaware 3,770,355 

Mississippi 4,493,305 

Oregon 4,261,240 

Nevada 4,838,735 

Nebraska ^ 3,290,515 

Colorado 3,745,215 

The  Territories 14,169,400 

Total $1,483,491,865 

Thus  it  will  be  seen  that  during  the  year  1870  the 
people  of  the  United  States  paid  for  strong  drinks  over 
the  co\mter  to  retail  dealers,  the  sum  of  fourteen  hundred 
and  eighty-three  miUions  four  hundred  and  ninty-one 
thoiisand  eight  hundred  and  sixty-five  dollars.  That 
sum  is  more  than  equal  to  one-Mf  the  principal  and  the 
annual  interest  of  the  public  debt.  That  sum,  if  applied  to 
the  payment  of  the  debt,  would  redeem  it  all,  in  gold,  in 
two  years.  The  amoimt  of  money  paid  by  actual  con- 
sumers for  this  strong  drink,  in  three  years,  would  equal 
the  entire  debt  of  the  Union,  and  of  all  the  States  and 
of  all  the  cities,  counties  and  towns  of  the  United 
States.  The  people  of  the  single  State  of  Illinois  expend 
for  liquor  a  sum  almost  equal  to  the  annual  interest  of 
the  national  debt ! 

Included  in  receipts  of  sales  of  liquor  dealers  are  such 
sums  as  may  have  been  received  for  cigars  at  their  bars 
which  do  not  exceed  the  value  of  the  liquors  imported  or 


;  I, 


CONSUMPTION  OF  TOBACCO.  231 

purchased  Wholesale  by  consumers,  and  the  sum  of  sales 
by  estabhshments  whi^  mal^e  no  returns,  or  fraudulent 
ones.    But  the  cigars  and  tobacco  sold  at  the  bars  of* 
saloons  are  but  a  part  of  the  same  reckless  extravagance 
which  wastes  upon  the  useless  luxury  of  strong  drink 
nearly^feew  hundred  miUions  of  dollars  a  year 

During  the  last  year  of  the  war,  when'  the  United 
States  had  onemiUion  of.  men  on  its  pay-rolls,  when  it 
was  paying  two  prices  in  a  depreciated  currency  for  food 
and  clothmg  and  for  labor,  and  for  materials  of  war,  the 
total  expenditures  of  the  government,  including  the 
hundreds  of  thousands  of  dollars  actually  stolen,  and  as 
much  wasted,  did  not  equal  the  amount  of  money  paid 
last  year  to  saloon-keepers  and  other  retail  Uquor 
dealers  by  their  customers. 

A  people  who  spend  $1,500,000,000  annuaUy  to  retail 

slooToOOO  '""/"'v'"''^^^'  "^°  spend  perhaps 
$50,000  000  more  for    hquor    imported    or   purchased 

Wholesale  by  consumers;  who  spend  $100,000,000  annu- 
ally for  cigars  and  tobacco.in  other  forms,  can  hardly  be 
said  to  be  badly  «  oppressed  "  by  a  debt,  the  interest  on 
which  IS  only  me-sixteenth  of  the  amount  of  these  reckless 
expenditures  for  the  luxuries  of  liquor  and  tobacco.  A 
man  camiot  be  said  to  be  severely  crushed  by  the  weight 
of  his  debts  who  spends  in  the  course  of  a  year  for 
hquor  and  tobacco  a  sum  equal  to  two  thirds  of  his 
share  of  the  national  indebtedness. 

Again  as  but  too  nearly  related  to  our  last  specifi- 
cation, the  article  of  tobacco  lays  in  a  demand  for  milhons 
more.    The  annual  consumption  in  dfreat  Britain  is  said 

J'asTnomV  f  ^f  ^fO '  ""^  ^  '^'  ^^"^^  states  to 

«d2,000,000.  In  the  city  of  New  York  alone  $10,000  are 
puffed  away  in  smoke  daily ;  or  $3,650,000  a  year.  Yet 
this  sinks  quite  into  insignificance  compared  with  the  con- 
sumption of  some  European  cities.    In  the  city  of  Ham- 


232 


THE  FOOT-PRINTS  OP  SATAN. 


burg,  one  sixth  the  size  of  New  York,  more  than  a  million 

of  dollars  every  year  dissolves  in  smoke. 
The  entire  tobacco  crop  of  the  world  is  put  down  at 

4,480,000,000  pounds ;  of  which  the  United  States  pro- 
duce 200,000,000.    Merely  the  cigars  consumed,  yearly, 
in  the  United  States,  coat  more  than  all  our  common 
schools,  and  more,  some  say— possibly  it  is  an  exagge- 
ration—than aU  our  breadstuflfs.    When  we  add  to  all 
the  other  items  of  this  most  useless,  inexcusable  of  all  ex- 
penditures, the  labor  of  a  milUon  and  a  half  of  men  who 
are  employed  in  the  cultivation  of  tobacco,  or  in  itspre- 
pai-ation  for  use,   and  also  the  immense  quantities  of 
fertile  land  used  for  the  cultivation,  we  are  able  to 
appreciate  in  some  degree  the  value— at  least  the  cost— 
of  a  single  useless,  nauseous,  hurtful,  and  therefore,  sinful 
habit. 

The  New  York  Times,  of  more  ihan  a  year  ago,  was 
found  discoursing  very  suggestively,  and  we  suppose 
coiTectly,  on  this  very  theme.    It  says : 

"  The  Treasury  tables  for  the  past  year  wiU  show  some 
curious  and  rather  striking  results.  The  great  grain- 
gi'owing  interest  may  be  thought  to  figure  to  poor  pur- 
pose in  the  list  of  foreign  exports,  when  it  is  known  that 
we  smoke  up,  in  Spanish  cigars,  the  whole  export  of 
wheat,  and  drmk  down,  in  French  cognac,  the  entire  ex- 
port of  Indian  com.  For  the  rest  of  our  breadstuflfs,  the 
flour  sent  abroad  suffices  for  something  hke  two-thurds 
of  the  interest  on  the  foreign  debt,  leaving  the  rice  of 
South  Carohna  and  the  deferred  faith  of  the  repudiating 
States  to  settle  thelremainder. 

"In  the  fiscal  year  ending  the  30th  of  June  last,  the 
United  States  exported  wheat  to  the  value  of  $2,555,209 
Dming  the  calendar  year,  the  city  of  New  York  alone  im- 
ported  cigars  to  the  amount  of  $1,878,744,  and  other 
ports,  say  40  per  cent,  of  the  whole,  would  swell  the  total 


\, 


VAST  SUMS  SPENT  FOB  TOBACCO. 


233 


to  $3,131,216.  The  difference  against  us,  in  these  two 
articles,  18  barely  made  good  bjaUthe  rye.  oats,  and 
o  her  small  grain,  $334,471 ;  rye  meal,  $64,476 ;  potltoes, 
$115,121,  and  apples,  $43,635,  which  we  sent  out  last 
year. 

oo'J  ^''^/''P""^'  °^  I^'Ji™  com  was  of  the  value  of  $1,640  - 
225,  and  of  corn  meal,  $574,380,-together,  $2,U4  605 
Tlus  cUy  imported  in  one  year  Freneh  cogn«  akd  otW 
brandies  of  the  value  of  $1,494,635,  wLh  Tould  be 
sweUed  at  other  ports,  aUowing  New  York  flgures  to  re- 
pr^ent  60  per  oent.  only  of  the  whole,  to  $2  ^7 161  •• 

On  the  authQrity  of  Dr.  Ooles,  I  would  ^d,"  the 

Amenoan  Church  annuaUj  expends  $5,000,000  for  this 

If  th3rid  "^  ii.m.m  for  the  conversion 

Eev.  Dr.  Hawes,  of  Hartford,  Ct,  has  recenUy  preached 

a  strong  sermon  against  Uie  use  of  tobacco,  which  pr!. 

duces  quite  a  sensation.    He  exhibited  facte  and  statistics 

showing  Its  destruction  of  health  and  sanity,  its  demora^! 

izing  influence,  and  its  useless  expense.    It  costs  fte 

people  of  the  United  States  over  forty  million  doU^s 

annuaUy-far  more  than  is  spent  for'^aU  purpotes  of 

tTZimZ  ""f  f'  r^  "P  daily '$10,000  t 
cigara  and  $8,500  m  bread.    How  a  Christian  could  use 

It  seU  It  or  cultivate  it,  was  what  he  could  not  miZ- 
stand  He  predicted  that  the  valley  of  tiie  ConneTt^ut 
wo^d  be  blasted  by  it,  and  become L  bar^anrtte'u 
tobacco-fields  of  Virginia  and  Maryland. 

It  IS  not  generally  known  that  the  «5vilized  nations  of 
ae  world  derive  their  chief  revenue  from  tobacco?   wL^ 
veL  t^e%  T.T^""'"'  be  bankrupt  in  a  month.    Ust 

cfr^f^er$™s,o^-r^:^rdrt 

-^■^r-the&J^^r^-^l^^' 


I 


234 


THE  FOOT-PRINTS  OP  SATAN. 


And  again ;  and  in  yet  nearer  affinity,  and  as  a  Btill 
more  malignant  agent  of  man's  worst  Foe,  opium  fulfills 
the  nauseous,  deleterious  mission  of  tobacco, — unly  a 
great  deal  more  so.  Like  tobacco  it  is  a  narcotic — with 
properties  more  terribly  pungeni;,  more  hurtful  to  body 
and  soul,  to  nerve,  muscle  and  mind,  than  all  the  narcotic 
quaUties  of  tobacco.  It  more  completely  unnerves  an  I 
demoralizes  the  man  than  alcohol.  A  traveller  *iu 
Turkey  thus  describes  the  opium-eaters  of  Constantin- 
ople :  "  Their  gestures  were  frightful ;  those  wh  j  were 
under  the  influence  of  opium  talked  incoherently ;  their 
features  were  flushed ;  their  eyes  glaring ;  and  the  gene- 
ral expression  of  their  countenances  horribly  wild.  The 
debihty,  both  moral  and  physical,  attendant  on  the  ex- 
citement, is  terrible  ;  the  appetite  is  soon  destroyed,  and 
every  fibre  in  the  body  trembles.  The  nerves  of  the  neck 
become  affected,  and  the  muscles  get  rigid — necks  wry 
and  fingers  contracted,  but  still  they  cannot  abandon  the 
custom."  Was  there  ever  a  more  complete  triumph  of 
Satanic  maUgnity  over  man  ?  Was  the  image  of  God 
ever  so  completely  defaced  ? — man  ever  so  nearly  made  a 
devil? 

But  our  concern  with  this  disgusting  topic  at  present 
is  rather  with  the  pecuniary  aspect  of  it.  How  much  of 
the  Lord's  silver  and  gold  is  used  to  entail  on  man, 
through  this  drug,  one  of  the  bitterest,  the  most  shame- 
less curses  that  disgrace  humanity  ?  It  costs  more  to 
dement  and  demorahze  men,  through  this  single  drug, 
than  all  that  is  expended  to  reform,  educate,  elevate  and 
evangelize  them  through  all  the  benevolent  schemes  in 
vogue  the  world  around.  Indeed,  the  cost  of  opium  con- 
sumed in  China  alone  considerably  exceeds  the  total 
income  of  all  philanthropic,  educational  and  benevolent 
societies  in  all  Christendom.  In  a  single  city  of  China 
(Amoy)  there  are  said  to  be  a  thousand  shops  for  the 


CONSUMPTION  OP  OPIUM. 


235 


sale  of  opium,  the  annual  sales  amounting  to  $1,200,000 
And  there  are  four  other  depots  along  the  coast  of  the 
same  province. 

The  total  amount  of  opium  annuaUy  introduced  into 
^hma,  prmcipally  from  India,  we  find  set  down  at  81  750 
chests-others  say  10,000,000  pounds— at  a  cost  of  $58,- 
228,309.    And  it  may  not  exceed  the  truth  to  suppose 
tihat  at  least  an  equal  quantity  is  consumed  in  India, 
£urkej  and  the  other  opium-eating  countries  of  Asia. 
We  shall  probably  be  safe  in  charging  Asia  with  $116,- 
000,000  for  the  vile  use  she  makes  of  this  drug.     But  the 
loss  of  pecuniary  capital  is  not  the  worst  of  it.    Hot 
money,  but  muscle-mind,  skiU,  industry,  labor,  aU  worse 
than  lost,  which  swells  the  account  beyond  calculation. 
Ihe   complete  demoralization  of  the  whole  man  as  soon 
as  fairly  seized  by  the  tyranny  of  opium-eating,  is  the 
crowning  curse  of  all. 

China  pays  India  for  opium  alone  more  than  the  total 
value  of  all  her  exports  of  teas  and  silks— the  merest 
tithe  of  which  would  put  a  Bible  into  every  family  in  the 
kingdom,  supply  a  Christian  literature  and  support  a 
missionary  in  every  village  in  the  kingdom,  and  an  ade- 
quate supply  for  every  city. 

And  who  wiU  credit  it  that  this  barbarous,  heathenish 
habit  has  reached  America,  and  is  here  extending,  and 
has  increased  the  last  twenty-five  years  in  the  ratio  of 
SIX  hundred  per  cent. ,  and  was  never  increasing  so  fear- 
fully as  at  the  present  moment.  There  are  akeady 
consumed  in  the  United  States  150,000  pounds,  at  a  cost 
of  $600,000,  of  which  more  than  50,000  pounds  are 
annually  consumed  in  the  city  of  New  York. 

But  tobacco  and  opium  are  not  the  only  baneful 
naxcotics  extensively  used.-  The  Indian  hemp  is  used  as  a 
substitute  for  tobacco  and  opium  by  250,000,000  of 
people ;  and  the  betel  nut  by  half  as  many  more. ' 


& 


236 


THE  POOT-PBINTS  OF  SATAN. 


Though  we  would  not  place  tea  and  coffee  in  the  same 
category  as  tobacco,  opium,  and  other  narcotics  which  are 
decidedly  hurtful,  yet  they  are  at  best  but  luxuries,  and 
not  altogether  harmless.  We  may  at  least  tell  what  they 
cost,  and  leave  the  reader  to  his  own  judgment  whether 
they  pay.  The  people  of  these  United  States  are  said  to 
consume  149,000,000  pounds  of  coflfee  annually,  at  a  cost 
(averaging  twenty-five  cents  per  pound)  of  $37,250,000. 
And  Great  Britain  pays  nearly  the  same.  And  the  two 
countries  pay  not  less  than  $50,000,000  for  tea.  There 
are  consumed  in  the  world  nearly  800,000,000  pounds 
of  tea,  China  appropriating  the  lion's  share.  We  may 
set  down  the  world's  voluntary  tax  for  tea  at  $500,000,000. 

We  often  arrive  at  a  more  appreciable  cost  of  one  thing 
by  a  comparison  with  another.    By  such  comparison  we 
shall  see  how  the  expense  of  intemperance  looks  by  the 
side  of  some  other  expenses  which  are  sometimes  thought 
large.    The  aggregate  annually  raised  for  foreign  mis- 
sions, by  all  Evangelical  Churches  in  Christendom,  is 
$7,000,000.    The  cost  of  intoxicating  liquors  (wholesale) 
we  have  shown  to  be  $680,000,000  or  $1,860,000  a  day. 
The  annual  income  of  all  these  societies  therefore  would 
support  the  liquor  traffic  and  supply  our  tipplers  a  little 
more  than  fhree  days.    The  sum  total  of  the  annual 
incomes  of  all  our  societies,  benevolent,  philanthropic  and 
reforming  —  exclusive    of    educational    institutions— is 
^6,835,000.    This  would  serve  the  same  vile  pm-poses  less 
than  four  days.    Again,  during  the  last  twenty  years  the 
American  Churches,  through  all  their  benevolent,  philan- 
thropic and  educational  institutions  have  devoted 'to  their 
several  objects  $30,000,000.*    And  the  grand  aggregate, 


•  Details  here  may  not  be  without  interest  Beports  show  that  during 
the  last  twenty  years  fifteen  societies  received  and  disbursed  the  follow> 
ingsums: 


s'li-ir 


4l'||:i- 


THE  world's  benevolence.  237 

confadbuted  by  a^  the  benevolent  and  kindred  societies  in 
(^nstendom,  IS  $00,000,000*  This  mmen^e  sum  would 
cater  to  the  insatiable  demands  of  intemperance  almost 
thirty-three  days! 

Our  estimates  are  here  made  only  on  the  direct  cost  of 
strong  drmks :  loss  of  time,  cost  of  litigation,  support  of 
crimmals  and  paupers,  and  the  whole  indirect  expense 
does  not  enter  into  the  account.  This,  when  added  to 
the  diflference  between  the  wholesale  and  retail  cost  of 
hquors  IS  estimated  at  least  to  double  the  fearful 
amount.  More  is  wasted  in  one  day,  to  demoralize, 
dement,  paupenze  and  ruin  men  for  time  and  eternity  by 
the  mtoxicatmg  cup,  than  is  expended  both  by  the  Ame- 

American  Bible  Society $5,612,120 

Amencan  Tract  Society, "g  333  ^gs 

Home  Missionary  Society 2  688  868 

Foreign  Board  of  Presbyterian  Missions.". ".".'.'.".!  * "  2'206'407 

Amencan  Board  of  Foreign  Missions 5*  639*  983 

Foreign  Evaugelical  Society, 184999 

Baptist  Home  Missionary  Society 510949 

American  Anti-Slavery  Society, "  * "     ayi'sTO 

Seamen's  Friend  Society ""*      oq/o.. 

Colonization  Society ;;;;;;;; ii^'in 

Amencan  Temperance  Society 72*837 

American  Society  for  AmeUorating  the  Condition 

of  the  Jews j„„ 

Education  Society "llfiQ 

Female  Moral  Reformers '.'.'.'.'.""  63*707 

American  and  Foreign  Anti-Skveiy  Society^ .' ! .' ."  25,'390 

OfW^«*^-'; .$24,151,479 

Other  Societies g^OO.OOO 

^°*^ i^il^ 

This  is  a  truly  noble  aggregate,  and  if  the  contributions  of  the  ocner 
mmor  societies  of  a  religious  and  benevolent  character  were  added!^" 
total  would  amount  to  at  least  thirty  millions  of  dollars. 

•To  America  is  credited  $30,000,000.    To  Great  Britain  $28,000  000 
And  to  the  rest  of  Christendom  $2,000,000.  *^8.wo.uoo. 


238 


THE  FOOT-PRINTS  OP    SATAN. 


rican  Bible  Society  and  the  American  Board  of  Foreign 
Missions,*  in  a  year!  What  would  the  "god  of  this 
world "  have  more  ?  As  far  as  money  is  concerned,  is 
not  his  usurpation  almost  complete  ?  How  much  to  ruin 
how  little  to  bless  him  I 


man 


/ 


Or  we  might  supplement  and  confirm  the  above  illus- 
trations of  the  comparative  expense  of  the  useful  and  the 
good,  with  the  hurtful,  the  bad  and  the  ruinous,  by  hke 
'  illustrations  of  a  bygone  generation.  We  go  back  thirty 
years  and  hear  a  speaker  discoursing  on  the  comparative 
cost  of  missions  and  intemperance,  replying  to  the  cavil 
that  the  former  is  a  waste — that  so  much  money  is  sent 
out  of  the  country.  Even  at  that  period,  when  he  esti- 
mates the  cost  of  intoxicating  drinks  much  below  the 
present  fearful  expense,  a  starthng  contrast  is  presented. 

Take  the  American  Board  of  Commissioners  for 
Foreign  Missions  for  an  example, — the  oldest,  most 
extensive,  and  distinguished  institution  we  have.  The 
ivhole  amount  of  its  receipts  into  the  treasury  for  the  first 
31  years  ($2,753,605)  does  not  equal  the  cost  of  foreign 
distilled  spirits  and  wines/or /owr  months.  We  see,  then, 
who  it  is,  that  is  likely  to  send  all  the  money  out  of  the 
country, — the  missionary  societies  or  the  consumers  of 
foi'dgn  liquors.  More  is  paid  out  infour  months  for  foreign 
liquors  than  ALL  that  has  been  paid  into  the  treasury  of 
the  American  Board  in  31  years. 

Let  us  take  five  years,  and  compare  the  cost  of  foreign 
liquors  in  those  years,  with  the  donations  to  the  Ameri- 
can Board  ior  foreign  missions  in  those  years. 
The  American  Board  received  in  five  years,    $889,879  56 

Paid  for  foreign  liquors  in  five  years, $8,455,345  20 

(Estimating  these  at  one  dollar  per  gallon,) 

which  is  for  six  months, $845,534,  00 

The  consumption  of  foreign  liquors,    therefore,    sends 


/- 


OOMPABATIVE  WASTE  OF  RUM. 


239 


nearly  as  much  money  out  of  the  country  in  six  mmths,  as 
the  American  Board  for  Foreign  Missions,  in  five  years  I  H 
the  consumers  of  foreign  liquors  will  give  us  what  they 
send  out  of  the  country  in  40  days,  it  will  sustain  the 
Amencan  Board  for  366  days,  better  than  it  is  sustained 
now.  The  American  Board  is  not  one  ninth  the  expense 
meurred  by  the  consumption  of  foreign  liquors  alone, 
l-et  not  the  cfmurr^rs  complain  that  foreign  missions  are 
making  the  country  poor. 

n  we  had  the  income  of  five  of  the  most  prominent 
benevolent  societies  of  our  land,  we  should  not  have 
enough  to  pay  the  direct  cost  of  the  spirituous  Uquors  con- 
sumed m  our  country  mfive  days  I    Men  of  strong  drink- 
are  givmg  more  for  their  beverage  in, five  days  than  aJl 
that  IS  given  m  a  year,  by  the  benevolent,  to  these  five 
prominent  institutions !    Is  it  worth  while  for  drinking 
people  to  complain  about  the  cost  of  these  objects? 
Why  If  they  would  abstain  for  me  week,  out  of  the  fiftv 
two,  (even  if  they  drank  on  Sunday,)  they  would  save 
enough  to  sustain  these>e  societies  for  a  year 
^    Qr  take  up  the  accounts,  then,  of  these  five  benevolent 
institutions  fi'om  their  first  organization,*  and  you  would 
not  have  enough  to  pay  the  direct  cost  of  strong  drink  in 
our  land  for  54  days  I  b  xi* 

Bear  with  me  a  Uttie  longer.    Some  of  us  may  be  more 
famihar  and  interested,  perhaps,  in  political  economy 
and  internal  improvements,  than  in    such    benevolent 
associations.     More  grain  is  consumed  in  this  city,  month 
by  month  and  year  by  year,  for  distillation  into  ardent 
spints,  than  all  that  is  consumed  for  food,  by  all  the 
inhabitants,  and  all  the  horses,  cows,  and  other  animals    ' 
m  tihis  city  !    Let  the  political  economist,  and  those 
taxed  to  support  the  poor,  make  the  application-let  them 
judge  of  this  business  of  distillation. 


240  THE    FOOT-PRINTS  OP  SATAN. 

"We  boast,  in  this  State,  of  the  Erie  Oanal.  It  is  the 
most  stupendous  structure  for  artificial  navigation  in  the 
world.  It  has  given  us  a  name  abroad,  and  constitutes 
one  of  the  bold  items  of  our  nation's  glory,  among  tne 
older  nations  of  the  globe.  It  cost  much.  Its  official 
proposal  to  the  Legislature  was  loudly  scouted,  as  a 
scheme  of  wildness  and  extravagant  expenditu're.  It  was 
said  it  never  could  be  paid  for ;  and  every  year,  for  24 
years,  the  subject  of  its  expense,  and  the  payment  of  it, 
have  o<3cupied  no  small  portion  of  attention  among  our 
legislators  at'  Albany.  It  cost  $10,731,595.  This  is  a 
great  sum  for  our  legislators  to  grapple  with !  Men  /oi 
strong  drink  could  easily  take  care  of  it.  They  pay 
enough  to  cancel  every  cent  of  the  whole  expense  of 
building  it  in  93  days  I 

But,  let  us  add  this  to  others : 

The  363  miles  of  the  Erie  Canal  cost $10,731,595 

The  97  miles  of  the  Chenango  Canal, 2,009,58?, 

The  76  miles  of  the  ChampJem  Canal, 1179,872 

Making  a  total  of, $13,921,049 

These  are  the  three  great  works  of  the  State.  But  the 
cost  of  the  spirituous  liquors  consumed  in  our  nation 
would  pay  every  cent  for  the  whole  of  them  in  FOUR 
MONTHS !  And  here  this  proud  "  Empire  State  "  has 
been  embarrassing  herself  with  this  debt  for  24  years  I 
and  it  is  not  paid  yet ! 

What  a  glorious  day  that,  when  the  silver  and  the 
gold,  and  all  that  now  constitutes  wealth,  shall  be  devoted 
to  God  and  to  the  highest  interests  of  man.  No  desert 
will  then  remain  unreclaimed.  No  thorn  or  brier  infe  st 
the  earth.  No  call  of  philanthropy  or  benevolence  shall 
go  unheeded.    "  Every  valley  shall  be  exalted  and  every 


m.  f 


THE  EABTH  BENOVilED. 


m 


moontau,  and  hill  shall  be  made  low :  the  crooked  sbaU 

rftVif  "'P*"'"'"^'^«  deformities  and^astesol 
earth  shall,  be  restored,  and  peace  and  plenty  bllravef 
happrer  race.  It  shall  extenuate  the  cu^Ldrw^h 
man  has  so  long  groaned-relieye  from  pLTrlS 

16 


XI. 


1  fi' 


THE  PERVERSION  OF   WEALTH. 

(continued.) 


MODERN  EXTRAVAGANCE — EXPENSE  OF  CRIME — OF  AMUSE- 
MENTS— OF  FALSE  RELIGIONS — ^AVARICE — WICKED  INVEST- 
MENTS. 

We  may  not  stop  here.  In  nothing,  rather  than  in  the 
monopoly  of  money,  does  the  Devil  show  himself  a  roar- 
ing lion  going  about  seeking  whom  he  may  devour. 
Like  the  horse-leech  he  ever  cries.  Give,  give.  We  have 
other  items  of  no  small  magnitude  to  charge  to  his  ac- 
count. 

We  may  name  Extravagance  as  another  of  the  all-de- 
vouring demons  that  never  say  "  enough."  Their  name 
is  Legion.  Extravagance  in  dress,  in  modes  of  living,  in 
amusements,  but  too  often  absorbs  money  by  the  hun- 
dreds or  thousands,  where  the  real  necessities  of  hfe,  or 
its  charities,  are  satisfied  with  units  or  tens.  We  should 
find  no  end  of  enumerating  here.  Nor  should  we  well 
know  in  all  cases  how  to  discriminate  between  what  is  a 
prudent  and  justifiable  expenditure,  and  what  is  culpable 
extravagance.  Yet  there  are  cases  enough  that  are  be- 
yond doubt,  and  allow  of  no  extenuation. 


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But  the  common  forms  of  extravagance,  prodigal  as 
they  often  aro,  are  harmless  compared  with  that  which 
very  nat.irally  accompanies  overgrown  estates  and  high 
positions  in  life.    Extravagance  owes  its  origin,  in  some 
good  degree,  to  the  unequal  division  of  property,  and  the 
temptations  which  the  favored  class  have  to  a  profuse 
and  oftentimes  a  foolish  use  of  riches.    A  wise  and  be- 
nevolent Providence  has,  as  a  Good  Father,  kindly  con- 
sidered the  wants  of  h'    children.    In  our  Father's  house 
there  is  "  enough  and  to  spare  "  for  all.    If  the  Divine 
scheme  were  followed  out,  there  could  be  no  such  thing 
as  suffering  and  want  on  the  one  side,  if  there  were  not 
superabundance,  surfeiting,  and  monopoly  on  the  other. 
The  extent  of  the  extravagance  and  monopoly  of  the 
rich  just  measures  the  extent  of  the  want  and  suffering 
of  the  poor.    The  one  is  the  cause  and  counterpart  of 
tiie  other. 

The  idea  finds  a  very  obvious  illustration  in  England — 
though  we  by  no  means  lack  illustrations  in  our  own 
country.  England  has  thirty-two  million  acres  of  land. 
This  would  give  each  family,  if  equally  divided,  land 
enough  (two  acres  to  each  individual)  to  place  the  whole 
m  a  state  of  comfort  and  competence — in  connection,  we 
Eiean,  with  mechanical  and  other  avocations  of  the  peo- 
ple. But  what  is  the  fact  ?  What  of  unequal  division— 
of  overgrown  estates  and  monopolies,  extravagance  and 
oppression  on  the  one  hand,  and  poverty,  suffering,  dis- 
content, and  revolt  on  the  other. 

The  practical  working  of  the  present  unequal  distri- 
bution of  wealth,  and  the  mischief  of  monopoly,  is  well 
set  forth  in  the  following  paragraphs  : 

Some  of  the  New  York  Fifth  Avenue  "  swells  "  make 
very  respectable  attempts  to  do  the  "  palatial "  in  their 
houses  and  style  of  living,  and  put  forth  ambitious  efforts 
to    imitate    EngUsh    country  seats,  the  possession  of 


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THE  FOOT-PRINTS  OF  SATAN. 


which  the  English  call  "  a  snug  box,"  on  the  Hudson 
Eiver,  and  ten,  twenty,  or  a  hundred  acres.  An  account 
before  us  of  the  luxurious  style  of  living  among  the 
English  aristocracy,  throws  our  parvenu  pretenders 
considerably  into  the  shade  : 

About  sixty  miles  from  London,  is  the  estate  of  the 
Earl  of  Spencer,  which  comprises  ten  thousand  acres, 
divided  into  parks,  meadows,  pastures,  woods  and 
gardens.  His  library  contains  fifty  thousand  volumes, 
and  it  said  to  be  the  finest  private  library  in  the  world. 
The  Duke  of  Kichmond's  home  farm  consists  of  twenty- 
three  thousand  acres,  or  over  thirty-five  square  miles, 
and  this  in  crowded  England,  which  has  in  all  an  area  of 
only  50,000  square  miles,  or  just  32,000,000  acres,  giving, 
were  the  land  divided,  but  two  acres  to  each  inhabitant. 

The  residence  of  the  Duke  is  fitted  up  with  oriental 
magnificence.  Twenty-five  race  horses  stand  in  his 
stables,  each  under  the  care  of  a  special  groom.  The 
dishes  and  plates  upon  the  tables  are  all  of  porcelain, 
silver  and  gold.  His  aviary  is  supplied  with  almost 
every  variety  of  rare  and  elegant  birds,  and  large  herds 
of  cattle,  sheep  and  deer  are  spread  over  the  immense 
lawns. 

The  same  authority  from  which  we  gather  these  facts, 
says  that  the  Duke  of  Devonshire's  palace,  at  Chatsworth, 
excels  in  magnificence  any  other  of  the  kingdom.  He 
spends  the  whole  of  his  enormous  income.  In  the 
grounds  about  the  palace  are  kept  400  head  of  cattle, 
and  1,400  deer.  The  kitchen  garden  contains  12  acres, 
and  is  filled  with  almost  every  species  of  fruit  and  vege- 
tables. A  vast  aboretum,  connected  with  this  establish- 
ment, is  designed  to  contain  a  sample  of  every  tree  that 
grows.  There  is  also  a  glass  conservatory,  397  feet  in 
length,  112  feet  in  breadth  and  67  feet  in  height,  covered 
by  76,000  square  feet  of  glass,  and  warmed  by  seven  miles 


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DUKE  OF  DEVONSHIBB. 


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of  pipe,  conveying  hot  water.    One  plant  was  obtained 
from  India  by  a  special  messenger,  and  is  valued  at 
$10,000.    One  of  the  fountains,  near  the  house,  plays 
276  feet  high,  said  to  be  the  highest  jet  in  the  world 
Chatsworth  contains   3,500  acres,  but  the  Duke  owns 
96,000  acres  in  Derbyshire.    Within,  the  entire  is  one 
vast  scene  of  paintings,  sculpture,  mosaic  work,  carved 
wamscoting,  and  ail  the  elegances  and  luxuries  within 
the  reach  of  almost  boundless  wealth  and  refined  taste. 
Five-sixths  of  the  soil  in  England  is  divided  among 
scarcely  thirty  thousand  proprietors.    There  are  twenty- 
nine  bankers  in  London,  whose  transactions  yearly  em- 
brace six  or  seven  hundred  millions  sterling.    This  is  one 
side  of  the  picture.    The  struggle  between  capital  and 
labor  is  fearful— the  rich  always  becoming  richer,  and 
the  poor  poorer.     Three  hundred  thousand  persons  die 
of  famme  in  a  year,  and  three  hundred  thousand  volun- 
tarily emigrate  in  order  to  escape  the  same  dismal  doom. 
We  would  not  fail  here  to  notice  that  the  degree  of 
privation  and  suffering  on  the  one  side  is  but  the  exact 
counterpart  of  the  plethora  and    extravagance  of  the 
other.    The  unnatural  accumulation  and  wasteful  expen- 
diture of  a  few,  simply  means  lie  impoverishment  and  the 
suffering  of  the  many. 

But  the  simple  fact  of  the  accumulation  of  great  for- 
tunes on  the  one  part,  and  a  corresponding  poverty  on 
the  other,  is  by  no  means  the  worst  of  it.  Great  estates 
may  be  inherited,  or  otherwise  honestly  acquired  ;  and 
they  may  be,  in  a  commendable  manner,  consecrated  to 
the  good  of  man  and  the  service  of  the  great  Master. 
And  the  poverty  of  the  poor,  bad  as  it  is,  is  not  the  worst 
evil  humanity  is  heir  to.  When  these  mammoth  fortunes 
are  fraudulently  obtained;  when  the  accumulation  in- 
volves dishonesty,  thefts,  and  every  species  of  Satanic 
craft  and  guile ;  and  when  the  unrighteous  mammon  ia 


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used  only  to  corrupt  society  and  degrade  humanity,  fTi^n 
we  see  the  hand  of  the  Devil  in  it. 

The  world  perhaps  never  before  witnessed  a  perver- 
sion in  the  matter  of  money  so  disgraceful  to  aU  decent 
humanity  as  has  been  perpetrated  in  the  monopohes,  but 
more  especially  in  the  doings  of  the  "  Rings  "  of  a  few 
years  past.  But  we  wiU  not  go  into  details  here.  We 
take  courage  that  better  times  are  coming,  simply  from 
the  fact  that  the  Devil  has  here  done  his  worst,  and 
therefore  he  cannot  improve  on  the  past. 

But  we  must  have  a  word  more  with  Old  England. 
We  are  told  of  one  hundred  and  ninety-five  individuals  in 
Gre'^t  Britain  who  hold  $1,745,000,000  worth  of  British 
consols;  an  average  of  nearly  $9,000,000  to  each.  And 
will  any  one  tell  us  here  how  many  staivelings  are  made 
by  each  one  of  these  "bloated  bondliolders  ?"  Lord 
Derby  has  an  annual  income  of  .£190,000,  or  $1,000,000. 
This  would  give  a  competence  or  a  good  working  capital 
(of  ten  thousand  doUars  to  each)  to  a  hundred  families. 

Our  thought  is  weU  iUustrated  by  the  following  notice 
of  the  great  money  king  of  Europe,  the  late  Baron 
Bothschild. 

We  doubt  if  any  ordinary  person  can  contemplate, 
without  serious  misgivings,  the  announcement  that  Baron 
Kothschild,  who  recently  died  in  Paris,  was  worth  two 
thousand  million  of  francs,  or  four  hundred  millions  of 
doUars.  It  was  observed  at  the  time  that  he  was  a 
charitable  man,  and  that  the  poor  of  Paris  deplored  his 
loss  deeply. 

Yet  during  aU  the  long  weary  years  tnat  he  was  en- 
gaged m  amassing  that  stupendous  fortune,  men  and 
women  were  starving  to  death,  or  committing  suicide 
from  want  and  suffering  in  that  very  city  of  Paris.  Who 
can  teU  the  multitude  of  unfortunates  who,  wrecked  in 
fortune  by  the  changes  on  the  Bourse  wrought  or  con- 


BAEON  ROTHSCHILD. 


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trolled  by  this  man,  Lave  plunged  into  eternity  to  escape 
suflfering  and  reproach?  Who  can  teU  how  often  the 
loaves  of  the  baker  have  been  reduced  and  the  poor 
punished  because  some  of  the  Bothscliilds  had  run  up 
the  flour  market?  Who  can  tell  how  many  widows  and 
orphans  have  had  their  httle  all  engulfed  in  the  maelstrom 
of  fiscal  operations  that  brought  ruin  to  thousandsand 
fortune  to  him  ? 

Charity  I  How  many  millions  did  he  give  to  the  poor  ? 
In  order  to  be  truly  charitable  he  ought  to  have  deyoted 
about  half  his  fortune  to  such  purposes,  for  nothing  else 
would  have  relieved  him  of  the  responsibihty  for  the  evil 
he  had  wrought  in  seeking  to  pile  up  such  tremendous 
hoards.  Stephen  Girard  achieved  a  colossal  fortune  in 
commerce,  but  he  left  the  bulk  of  it  to  educate  the  orphan 
children  of  the  poor.  John  McDonough,  of  New 
Orleans,  foUowed  his  example.  George  Peabody  did  not 
wait  for  his  death-bed  to  warn  him  of  his  duty.  He 
gave  his  millions  to  the  needy. 

Bothschild  could  not  take  his  money  with  him  into 
the  next  world.  All  he  carried  with  him  to  the  grave 
was  a  wooden  box.  But  he  still  contrived  to  let  the  evil 
of  his  system  survive  him.  For  the  wealth  of  the  Both- 
schilds  is  jealously  guarded  against  division  by  prevent-, 
ing  the  children  from  marrying  out  of  the  family.  Even 
to  the  day  of  his  death  he  managed  to  keep  those  near- 
est to  him  ignorant  of  half  his  wealth  by  opening  a  great 
number  of  accounts  in  false  names. 

How  often  have  the  schemes  Of  this  dead  Bothschild 
produced  embarrassments  in  the  markets  of  America  ? 
How  often  has  he  not  spread  ruin  over  thousands  of  our 
countrymen  by  means  of  influence  centering  in  his  house 
in  London  and  Paris,  over  which  no  American  could  have 
any  control?  There  have  be6n  times  when  such  men 
were  supposed  to  have  rendered  great  pubho  services  by 


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the  command  of  fiscal  resources.     But  the  late  Em- 
peror of  France  at  last  emancipated  governments  from 
dependence  on  this  class,  by  means  of  his  great  popular 
loans,  raised  by  appeal  to  the  whole  mass  of  the  people. 
That  invention  has  exploded  the  bubble  on  which  the 
reputation  of  men  like  Eothschild  had  been  resting.    In 
any  age,  in  any  country,  under  any  circumstances,  such 
colossal  fortunes  are  nuisances.    So  far  from  benefiting 
the  people  in  any  way,  they  increase  the  downward  ten- 
dencios  of  the  poorer  classes ;  and  all  the  benevolence 
the  millionnaires  can  achieve  by  their  gifts  or  bequests 
will  not  atone  for  the  misery  they  inflict  upon  miUions  of 
the  human  lace. 

The  summer  residence  and  snug  little  country  seat  of  the 
Baron  contained  37,000  acres  of  park  and  grounds.  By 
this  appropriation  to  one  individual— not  to  meet  his 
necessities  but  his  luxuries— just  one  thousand  families 
were  left  without  a  snug  homestead  of  thirty-seven  acres 
each  — the  means  of  a  comfortable  and  independent 
subsistence  in  all  time  to  come. 

Whether  or  not  the  Baron  disbursed  bountifully  as  he 
had  bountifully  received  we  do  not  assert.  We  find  in 
his  record  one  instance  of  his  hospitality  which  looks 
sufficiently  large.  It  is  the  visit  to  his  superb  mansion, 
in  1866,  of  the  French  Emperor  (Napoleon  III.)  This 
visit  of  a  few  days  cost  the  noble  Baron  the  nice  httle 
sum  of  a  milhon  of  francs. 

We  are  often  asked  if  there  are  no  signs  that  the 
expensiveness  of  EngHsh  society,  especially  in  the  higher 
ranks,  may  speedily  begin  to  decrease.  We  see  no  signs 
of  It,  and  hold  it  to  be  much  more  probable  that  we  are 
on  the  eve  of  aa  era  of  ostentation  as  tawdry-  nnd  of  ex- 
toavagance  as  pitiable  as  that  which  mark.^  the  past. 
That  IS  the  Aiaerican  tendency,  and  we  n  jo  nothing,  no 
new  and  strong  idea,  which  should  mark  o^  the  manners 


MILLIONNAIBES. 


249 


of  our  society  from  those  of  the  wealthy  classes  of 
Great  Britain.    Public  Ufe  is  becoming  rather  less  than 
more  attractive  to  those  who  have  all  but  power.    The 
taste  of  art  which  is  developing  rapidly  is  the  most  ex- 
pensive of  all  tastes,  except  the  taste  for  gambling  and 
that  IS  not  on  the  decrease.    The  miUionnaires  are  becom- 
ing more  numerous  every  day,  and  certainly  do  not  spend 
their  wealth  more  for  the  public  benefit.    The  electors 
seem  every  year  to  prefer  the  great  spenders  as  repre- 
sentatives, while    the   wealthy,  who  might    check    the 
evil,  are  experimenting  in  a  new  and  most  costly  en- 
joyment-that  of  becoming  the  leaders  of  cosmopolitan 
waste,  and,  like  the  patricians  of  Rome  and  Spain,  main- 
taining establishments  in  a  dozen  countries  at  once.    It 
18,  says  the  London   Spectator,  coming   rapidly  to  this 
—that  a  first  class  leader  of  society,  with  a  first  class  for- 
tune, to  be  "  on  a  level  with    his  position,"  wants   or 
chooses  to  think  he  wants,  a  house  in  London,  a  house 
on  the  nver,  two  palaces  at  least  in  the  country,  a  shoot- 
mg-box  in  the  Highlands,  a  hotel  in  Paris  as  costly  as 
his  London  house,  a  villa  at  Oomo,  a  floor  in  Eome,  an 
establishment  in  Cairo  or  Constantine,  a  vacht,  a  theatre 
and  a  racing  stud,  and  then  thinks  that' Ufe  is  as  mono- 
tonous as  it  was  when  "in  his  cool  haU  with  haggard 
eyes  the  Roman  noble  lay." 

Exorbitant  salarks  are  somewhat  akin  to  overgrown 
estates.  They  are  income  from  another  species  of  capital, 
and  are  but  too  often  the  result  of  fraud  and  despotism. 
Both  Church  and  State  afford  examples  of  this  kind  ol 
money  monopoly.  The  annual  revenue  of  the  clergy  of 
the  Church  establishment  of  England  is  more  than 
$42,000,000.  The  income  of  the  bishops  is  enormous. 
That  of  28  amounts  to  nearly  a  million.  For  instance, 
the  Archbishop  of  Canterbury  receives  $75,000 ;  of  York,' 
$50,000;    the  Bishop  of  London,  $50,000;  of  Durham* 


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THE  rOOT-PRHITS  OF  SATAN. 


$40,000 ;  of  Winchester,  $35,000.  The  salaries  of  the 
inferior  clergy  are  grossly  unequal.  For  instance  1,500 
get  annually  about  $6,000,  while  another  1,500,  though 
working  ministers  get  but  from  $400  to  $200  each. 

But  these  are  moderate  when  compared  with  the  reve- 
nues of  the  Pope  and  the  great  ones  of  the  Bomish  Hier- 
archy. Nowhere  does  the  power  of  money  tell  more 
effectively  for  evil.  The  matter  of  excessive  salaries  in 
general,  belongs  more  properly  to  our  next  chapter. 

Other  occasions  of  culpable  extravagance  are  weddings 
and  funerals. 

Funeral  Extravagance. — The  remark  of  the  gentleman 
who  said  he  could  not  afford  to  die  in  New  York  has 
doubtless  been  echoed  by  many  a  victim  to  funeral  biUs. 
The  following  sensible  discussion  of  the  subject  is  from 
Hearth  and  Home : 

The  desire  for  display  on  funeral  occasions  keeps  pace 
with  the  passion  for  expensive  weddings,  until  some 
people  have  come  to  act  as  if  they  thought  all  of  one's 
worldly  goods  should  be  expended  in  commemorating 
his  marriage  and  death.    A  few  years  ago  a  simple  coffin, 
plain  hearse,  and  a  few  carriages  were  looked  u^jon  as  a 
sufficient  manifestation  of  respect  and  regard  for  the 
dead.    Now  costly  shrouds  and  appointments,  the  most 
expensive  coffins,  and  long  trains  of  carriages  are  regard- 
ed as  essential  to  a  "  genteo'  "  funeral.    Those  who  have 
wealth  can  make  these  outlays  without  infringing  upon 
their  actual  wants.    Fashion's  dictates,  however,  lead 
many  tliousands  to  pursue  a  similar  course,  when  by  so 
doing    they  rob  themselves  of  the  necessaries  of  life. 
How  many  widows  devote  to  their  funerals  more  than 
half  the  funds  left  by  husbands ;  and  how  many  children, 
in  displaying  a  final  regard  for  death  of  parents,  encroach 
upon  their  bread  money  !    As  the  young  married  couple 
will  squander  hundreds  of  dollars  on  a  showy  wedding 


COST  OF  AMUSEMENTS. 


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tour,  and  return  to  take  lodgings  in  the  sky-parlor  of  a 
cheap  boardmg-house.  so  will  widows  and  children  often 
devote  to  a  husband's  and  parent's  funeral,  what  is  aotu- 
aUy  required  to  keep  soul  and  body  together,  and  aU  to 
conform  to  custom  and  be  "  genteel." 

We  have  spoken  plainly  on  this  subject,  but  it  demands 
plam  speech.  Funeral  extravagance  has  become  a  cry- 
mg  evil,  bearing  heavily  upon  the  middle  and  lower 
classes  and  no  false  notions  of  delicacy  should  deter 
either  the  pulpit  or  the  press  from  endeavoring  to  arrest 

lb.  ^ 

Again  immense  sums  are  sunk  in  the  vortex  of  amuse- 
ments.   We    refer  now    only    to    hurtful,    demorali^iing 
amusements ;  as  amusements,  when  neither  hurtful   nor 
demoralizing  are  not  necessarily  sinful.    The  cost    of 
amusements  is  beyond  aU  convenient  calculation.    There 
IS  here   a  strange  hifatuation.    Men  and  women  who 
would  not  give  a  sixpence  to  any  charity,  and  who  dis- 
pense most  grudgingly  even  for  the  comforts,  perhaps  for 
the  necessaries  of  hfe,  not  unfrequently  will  squander, 
or  more  hkely  suffer  then:  children  to  squander  dollars 
for  some  foolish  amusement. 

It  would  be  impractical  to  do  more  than  to  name  few 
of  the  Items  that  indicate  the  enormous  tax  which  is  here 
levied  by  this  insidious  tyrant.  The  entire  expense  lies 
beyond  the  power  of  any  one  man  to  ascertain,  and  not 
within  the  sphere  of  our  common  arithmetic  to  calculate. 
We  have  an  illustration  in  the  expense  of  theatrical 
amusements.  Yet  this  is  but  a  drop  in  the  bucket  com- 
pared with  the  whole  amount. 

There  are  now  in  the  city  of  New  York,  in  fuU  blast 
night  after  night,  at  most  seasons  of  the  year,  theatres 
capable  of  holding  fourteen  thousand  persons,  and  receiv- 
ing m  the  aggregate  probably  $5,000  per  night.    Five  of 
these  furnish  facilities  for  Hcentiousness  by  providing 


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prostitutes  with  acooaimodatious  in  their  "  third  tiers " 
or  otherwise.  Take  away  from  a  theatre  its  "third  tier" 
and  the  accompanying  bar,  and  one  of  the  chief  sources 
of  revenue  is  dried  up.  "  The  saloons  of  the  late  Broad- 
way Theatre,  when  first  onr;  J,  w  ^e  rented  at  $5,000 
per  annum,  and  the  receipts  at  the  office  were  nearly 
$2,000  nightly."  Of  course  these  figures  form  no  crite- 
rion by  which  to  judge  other  theatres,  or  even  the  same 
establishment  at  the  present  time  ;  but  taken  in  connoo- 
tion  with  the  fact  that  a  New  York  theatre,  now  extinct, 
received  $800,000  in  seven  yealfe,  they  serve  ;  o  show  that 
time  and  money  and  character  are  not  squandered  in 
brothels,  gamuUng-hells,  and  lottery-oflS,pe8  alone. 

Again  :  From  the  fashionable  and  fascinating  opera- 
houses  and  ball-  xooms  down,  through  a  long  gradation, 
to  the  vile  assemblies  of  "  the  Points,"  amusements  are 
graduated  so  as  to  gratify  every  class,  however  degraded 
—every  taste,  however  depraved — every  desire,  however 
debased.  Theatres,  circuses,  museums,  minstrels,  mena- 
geries of  the  lowest  order,  model  artist  exhibitions,  sailors' 
and  strumpets'  dance  houses,  attract  audiences,  more  or 
less  numerous,  every  night  in  New  York.  Time  would  fail 
me  to  tell  a  tithe  Of  what  may  be  seen  on  any  evening  by 
him  who  would  venture  to  explore  the  secret  haunts  of 
sin,  and  it  is  more  than  doubtful  whether  such  a  narra- 
tion would  serve  any  good  purpose. 

But  there  are  antecedents  to  the  habitual  frequenting 
of  these  places  of  amusements,  which  need  a  moment's 
notice.  Unquestionably  the  bowling-alleys,  billiard- 
saloons,  shooting-galleries,  ale-houses,  and  the  attractive 
and  resplendent  restaurants,  are,  to  many  a  youth,  the 
primary  schools  of  vice,  in  which  are  learnt  the  first 
lessons  of  irreligion  and  dissipation.  However  harmless 
in  themselves  some  of  these  places  of  recreation  may  be, 
there  are  associations  formed  and  habits  contracted  by 


THEATRES  AND  THEIB  COST. 


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frequenting  them,  whose  influence  sways  n  lifetime,  and 
imperils  the  immortal  soul.  From  hence  to  the  theatre 
is  but  a  step ;  from  the  theatre  downward  the  descent 
is  easy. 

The  following  items  give  us  some  idea  at  least  of  the 
expensiveuess  of  amusements.     I      nx  theatres  in  New 
York,  and  in  two  places  of  occaBionai  theatricals,  and  in 
one  circus,  there  are  from  one  to  two  hundred  persons 
employed  in  each.    A  single  theatre  (the  Bowery)  pays 
$1,000  to  one  paper  for  advertising,  besides  handbills, 
cards  and  posters,  amounting  to  several  thousand  more. 
"  Hard  times,"  writes  a  correspondent,  "  but,"  continues 
he,  "  the  theatres  were  full  last  night  to    overflowing. 
The  probable  receipts  for  the  night,  from  four  theatres, 
were  said  to  have  averaged  from  $1,000  to  $1,600. 
^    These  four  theatres  doubtless  received  not  less  than 
$1,000,000  annually— and  all  the  theatres  in  New  York 
not  less  than  $2,000,000.    Such  a  princely  income  is  re- 
quired to  meet  the  correspondingly  profuse  expenditures 
of  these  places.    The  celebrated  actor  Kean  used  to  be 
paid  at  the  Drury  Lane  Theatre  X50   ($260)  a  night. 
At  Park  Theatre  actors  were  paid  from  $80  to  $100  a 
week.     Professor  Bronson  was  oflfered  $1,000  a  week. 
He  would  accept,  if  th^  dissipation  and  the  profanity 
of  the  stage  could  be  removed ;  and  the  nuisances  could 
be  taken  away.    But  he  was  told  that  could  not  be 
done! 

In  all  this  we  have  said  nothing  of  the  immense  ex- 
penditures for  buildings,  furniture,  apparatus,  scenery, etc., 
compared  with  which  all  the  expenditures  for  conducting* 
all  our  philanthropic  and  benevolent  enterprises  are  but 
an  item.  The  expense  of  theatres  in  New  York  alone 
greatly  exceeds  the  expense  of  all  the  evangelical  pastors' 
salaries  in  that  great  metropolis — and  probably  we  might 
add  the  whole  expense  of  all  the  benevolent  organizations 


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THE    FOOT-PRINTS  OF  SATAN. 


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of  the  city.  And  it  is  possible  that  more  time  and'  service 
is  there  devoted  to  theatrical  amusements  than  is  by  all 
other  classes  devoted  to  religion  and  the  sui)reme  good  of 
man.  Friends  of  religion  and  good  morals,  therefore, 
should  not  patronize  these  places  of  demoralization  and 
waste,  but  unite  their  influence  and  example  to  suppress 
so  fruitful  a  source  of  evil.  Scarcely  has  our  arch  Foe  a 
more  subtle  and  sure  device  by  which  to  decoy  the 
multitude  on  in  the  broad  road  to  death.  Surely  he  is 
the  god  of  this  world. 

Items  like  the  following  give  some  idea  of  the  expense 
of  furnishing  amusements,  and  of  the  wilhngness  of 
other  classes  to  pay  to  be  amused.  An  Italian  singer  has 
received  $70,000  for  a  single  season ;  and  a  nobleman 
has  been  known  to  pay  $1,500  a  year  for  a  single  box  in 
an  opera.  Jenny  Lind,  the  Swedish  singer,  was  oflfered 
$200,000  to  sing  two  hundred  nights,  and  all  the  ex- 
penses of  herself  and  her  father  paid,  and  a  carriage  al- 
ways at  her  command. 

A  late  writer  gives  an  aggregate  of  the  annual  cost  of 
pubUc  amusements  in  New  York  city  at  $7,000,000,  and 
the  amount  of  intoxicating  liquors  sold  at  8,000  drinking 
places  at  $13,000,000,  or  including  time  and  labor  wasted 
and  capital  involved  in  the  traffic,  not  less  than  $48,000,- 
000. 

And,  as  nearly  akin  to  the  last,  we  might  take  a  few 
items  from  the  history  of  gambling,  that  shall  further  illus- 
trate the  same  profuse  and  criminal  perversion  of  money. 
It  is  said  that  $35,000,000  are  annually  lost  in  the  gam- 
bling houses  of  London— $5,000,000  have  been  known  to 
be  lost  at  one  house  (Brockford's)  in  a  smgle  night.  One 
gamblmg  saloon  in  London  cost  $500,000,  and  its  receipts 
are  half  a  miUion  a  year. 

But  the  pecuniary  waste  of  gambling  is  as  nothing 
compared    with    the  moral   devastation.     The  epithet 


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OAMBLINO  HELUI  AKD  CRIME. 


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applied  by  common  oonseut  to  those  dens  of  all  manner 
of  iniquity,  is  aptly  significant.  They  are  "gambling 
hells."  And  so  true  are  they  to  their  disgusting  cog- 
nomen, so  demoralizing  in  all  their  doings,  so  pestiferous 
their  atmosphere  that  the  common  verdict  of  all  decent 
people  is  that  aZ  the  frequenters  of  these  pits  "go  down 
to  death,  their  feet  take  hold  on  hell."  Point  out  a  man 
who  is  a  confirmed  gambler,  and  you  need  not  fear  to 
charge  upon  him  any  sin  in  the  whole  catalogue  of  human 
depravity. 

Some  people  perplex  themselves  about  the  locality  of 
the  Devil.  Let  them  go  into  a  first-class  gambling  hell 
about  twelve  o'clock  at  night  and  their  doubts  will  be 
removed. 

The  enormous  expense  of  crime  next  demands  our 
attention.  Virtue,  religion,  benevolence,  cost  something. 
But  their  cost  smks  into  comparative  insignificance  by 
the  side  of  the  cost  of  sin.  The  shghtest  glance  into  the 
annals  of  crime  will  verify  the  assertion. 

We  may  take  the  number  of  criminals  in  the  United 
States,  already  convicted  and   suflfering  the  penalty  of 
their  guilt,  at  20,000,  and  the  number  in  custody,  but  not 
yet  convicted,  6,000.    The  cost  of  maintaining  these,  per 
annum  at  $200  each,  is  $5,200,000.    Cost  of  arrest,  trial 
and  conviction  not  less  than  $3,000,000  a  year.    And  if 
we  admit  into  the  account  but  a  few  of  the  items  of  the 
waste  and  destruction  of  property  perpetrated  by  this 
class  before  their  detection,  such  as  waste  from  rioting, 
dissipation  and  drunkenness,  say  another  $3,000,000,  and' 
loss  by  fires,  the  work  of  incendiaries,  $5,000,000,'  we  shall 
find  ourselves  paying  (besides  incidental  wastes  not  easily 
calculated)  more  than  $16,000,000  as  the  more  direct, 
tangible  annual  expense  of  crime  in  a  single  country  I 
and  this  not  including  the  expense  of  making  laws  for  the 
suppression  of  crime,  the  building  of  prisons,  the  support 


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THE    FOOT-PRINTS  OV  SATAN. 


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of  magistrates  and  police,  and  the  whole  corps  of  execu- 
tive officers. 

The  expense  of  prisons  alone  in  Great  Britain  is  re- 
ported to  have  amounted,  in  a  single  year,  to  more  than 
$2,000,000.  And  the  number  of  persons  convicted  of 
crime  the  same  year  was  not  less  than  25,000.  But 
who  furnish  our  criminals  and  paupers,  and  how  are  they 
made  such?  A  recent  publication  states  that  of  the 
criminals  in  New  York  city  for  twenty-one  months,  31,088 
were  natives  of  this  country,  while  89,589  were  foreigners ; 
of  whom  60,44.2  were  Irish,  9,488  Germans,  and  4,000 
English.  Of  28,821  persons  admitted  to  the  alms-house 
in  ten  years,  22,468  were  foreigners ;  15,948  were  Irish, 
1,240  Germans,  and  1,297  English.  During  the  same 
time,  of*  50,015  admitted  to  Bellevue  Hospital,  41,851 
were  foreigners.  Of  4,335  inmates  of  the  lunatic  asylum, 
3,3C0  were  foreigners.  Of  251,344  committed  to  the  city 
prison,  only  59,385  were  natives,  while  86,431  professed 
to  be  members  of  the  Church  of  Kome.  And  we  have 
elsewhere  seen  that  a  very  large  percentage  of  our  crimi- 
nals are  made  such  by  the  use  of  intoxicating  drinks,  one 
of  the  most  direct  and  sure  agencies  of  the  Devil. 

But  the  master-piece  of  invention  by  which  Satan  has 
contrived  to  monopolize  the  wealth  of  this  world  and  to 
secure  to  himself  the  power  wealth  gives,  is  that  of  Pagan 
Beligions.  The  following  facts  will  indicate  something 
of  the  profusion  of  expenditure  on  account  of  spurioua 
religions. 

The  celebration  of  a  single  feast  of  the  Hindoo  goddess, 
Doorga,  costs  at  Calcutta  alone,  $2,500,000.  And  besides 
this,  the  bloody  sacrifices  are  enormous.  A  single  indi- 
vidual (a  Bajah)  has  been  known  to  expend  at  this  fesiivai 
$45,000.  There  have  been  sacrifices  on  this  occAsion  of 
30,000  sheep,  and  a  single  Bajah  has  been  known  to  offer 
65,000  animals  at  a  single  festival.    Indeed,  the  people 


EXPENSE  OP  mOLATRT. 


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hold  everything  subject  to  the  call  of  their  gods-money, 
children,  their  own  bodies  and  souls.  Temples  are  usu- 
BUj  bmlt  by  individuals.  Some  cost  $10,000,  some  $100.- 
000,  others  cost  miUions, 

In  the  kingdom  of  Siam,  for  a  population  of  four  or  five 
milhons,  there  are  at  least  20,000  priests,  and  a  propor- 
tionate  number  of  splendid  and  costly  pagodas,  aU  sup- 
ported  by  onerous  exactions  on  a  priestridden  people. 
The  mass  of  the  people,  rich  and  poor,  expend  far  the 
larger  moieiy  of  their  earnings  or  income  in  offerings  to 
ido  s,  and  the  countless  rites  and  festivals  connected  with 
idol  worship.  The  following  list  of  articles  a  single  wealthy 
native  has  been  known  to  offer  at  the  celebration  of  one 
festival:  80  000  pounds  of  sugar;  1,000  suits  of  cloth 
garments ;  1,000  suits  of  silk,  and  1,000  offerings  of  rice 
and  fruits;  and  another  to  expend  upwards  of  $150,000 
at  a  smgle  festival,  and  $50,000  annually  to  the  end  of  his 
Me.  It  is  no  uncommon  occurrence  that  a  wealthy  family 
IS  reduced  to  poverty  through  their  profuse  and  ostenti 
tious  offerings  to  their  gods. 

The  Eajah  of  Burdwan  spends  $125,000  annually  upon 
prieste  and  idols.    Rev.  Mr.  Werthrecht,  speaking  of  a 
visit  he  made  to  tlis  Rajah,  says,  "  I  found  him  sitting 
m  his  treasury.     Fifty  bags  of  money,  containing  $2,000 
each  were  placed  before  him.     "  What,"  said  I,  «  are  you 
doing  with  all  this  money  r     "  It  is  for  my  gods,"  said 
he.     'How?    asked  I.    "  One  part  is  to  be  sent  to  Be- 
nares where  I  have  two  fine  temples  on  the  river  side,  and 
many  priests  who  pray  for  me.    Another  part  goes  to 
Juggernaut,  and  a  third  to  Gunga."     Here  is  one  native, 
annually  spending,  on  a  class  of  idle  and  worse  than  use- 
less  Brahmins,  $100,000.    Let  the  rich  Christian  receive 
a  profitable  hint  from  the  example  of  this  poor,  deluded 
Idolater.    How  long  would  it  require  a  similar  hberality 


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THE   POOT-PBINTS  OF  SATAN. 


on  the  part  of  Christians  in  order  to  extend  the  blessings 
of  the  gospel  to  the  ends  of  the  earth  ? 

It  is  computed  by  Rev.  Mr.  Dean,  that  the  Chinese  ex- 
pend annually  for  truxnse  alone,  to  bum  before  their  idols 
not  less  than  $360,000,000.  And  we  are  told  of  a  Hindoo 
who  expended  half  a  miUion  of  dollars  in  a  single  festival 
and  of  another  who  spent  two  and  a  half  miUion  for  the 
support  of  idolatry. 

There  is  a  temple  in  Mengoon  (the  largest  in  the  Bur- 
man  empire)  which  covers  twelve  acres  of  ground.  In 
the  Ciutre  is  a  room  twenty  cubits  square,  in  which  are 
placed  images  of  each  member  of  the  royal  family  made 
of  pure  gold,  the  amount  of  gold  in  each  image  equaUimin 
weight  the  mdividual  for  whom  it  was  made ;  also  images 
of  each  nobleman  in  the  empire,  made  of  white  silver 
and  the  silver  weighed  against  each  man.  Everything 
about  this  pagoda  is  on  a  scale  of  vastness  almost  over- 
powering. For  example,  the  hons  that  guard  the  stairs 
leading  from  the  river  up  to  the  sacred  enclosure,  though 
m  a  crouchant  posture,  are  ninety  feet  in  height. 

The  celebrated  Taj,  of  Agra,  the  mausoleum  erected 
by  the  Emperor  Shah  Jehan  in  memory  of  his  favorite 
begum  Noor  Mahal,  would  now  cost  to  build  it  in  India 
it  is  said,  not  less  than  $50,000,000.  ' 

Or  turn  we  to  the  Bomish  Church,  we  meet  illustrations 
none  the  less  striking.  This  grand  counterfeit  of  the  true 
faith  has  richly  merited  the  title  it  has  been  awarded  of 
being  a  "  Church  of  money."  Had  Satan  no  other  pur- 
pose  m  the  mvention  and  support  of  this  form  of  reUgion 
than  the  monopoly  of  incalculable  pecuniary  treasures, 
and  by  these  means  abstracting  them  from  the  great 
arena  of  human  progiess  and  Christian  benevolence,  the 
design  would  be  worthy  of  the  original.  We  can  go  into 
no  calculations  as  to  the  millions  on  millions  that  are 
wrenched  from  the  people  and  absorbed  in  the  parapher- 


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WHAT  THE  PAPACY  COSTS. 


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naKa  of  the  Scarlet  Beast.  In  Eev.  xvi.  11-19,  we  have  a 
singular  description  of  the  superabounding  riches  of  this 
great  religious  delusion.  Mammon  has  laid  the  abun- 
dance of  his  riches  at  the  feet  of  this  reHgion.  How  this 
is  done  we  have  a  notable  illustration  in  the  exactions  of 
this  Church  in  every  CathoUc  country.  We  may  select 
Ireland  as  an  example.  The  history  of  that  priest-ridden, 
poverty-stricken  country  furnishes  a  melancholy  chapter 
on  the  misery  and  starvation  of  a  people  ground  beneath 
the  iron  heel  of  spiritual  despotism. 

But  do  those  who  pityingly  read  this  chapter  of  priestly 
extortions,  comprehend  their  magnitude  ?  Do  they  real- 
ize what  stupendous  sums  the  Romish  priesthood 
yearly  abstract  from  the  industrial  avocations  of  that 
country?  The  following  short  and  imperfect  Ust  com- 
prises nearly  $7,000,000,  which  that  already  poverty- 
stricken  people  are  annually  paying  to  support  the  un- 
warrantable pretensions  of  an  almost  useless  priesthood  : 
for  confessions  $1,500,000,  for  burials  $150,000,  for 
unctions  $300,000,  for  marriages  $1,800,000,  for  deUver^ 
ing  from  purgatory  $500,000,  for  church  collections 
$2,500,000. 

This  does  Uttle  more  than  indicate  the  mode  by  which 
that  Church  extorts  money  from  the  people,  and  the 
enormous  sums  which  it  extorts.  And  if  starving 
Ireland  pays  seven  millions  annually,  simply  for  the  half 
dozen  items  named,  who  shall  tell  us  of  the  immense 
revenues  of  the  Woman  on  the  Scarlet  Beast  in  countries 
more  wealthy?— to  say  nothing  of  the  nameless  wealth 
held  by  the  Church  of  Eome  as  her  more  permanent 
inheritance. 

In  nothing  perhaps  are  the  cunning  devices  of  our 
great  enemy  more  conspicuous  than  in  his  monopoly  of 
money.  Well  does  he  understand  that  money  ans  vers 
aU  things.    In  the  form  of  bribes  it  imperils  the  best 


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THE  POOT-PBINTS  OF  SATAN. 


interests  of  a  free  people,  persuades  to  every  crime  and 
pei-petrates  every  mischief.    There    is  no    villa-ny    so 
black    no  murder  so    atrocious  that  its    perpetration 
cannot  be  bought  off  with  money.    Money  as  an  inceu- 
tive  to  cnme,  blinds  the  mind,  renders  obtuse  the  heart 
sears  the  conscience,  obliterates  the  Kne  between  wrong 
and  right,  and  makes  man  the  victim  of  dishonesty  and 
shameless  wrong.    The  most  disgusting  specimens   of 
this  species  of  human  depravity  and  of  Satanic  incf^rna- 
tion    are,   at    this    moment,  cursing    our    large   cities. 
Men  of  wealth,  position,    education    and    professional 
standing,  are,  by  means  of  bribery  and  financial  chi  an- 
ery,  perpetrating  gigantic  frauds  themselves,  and  using 
the  power  of  their  immense  and  ill-gotten  wealth  to  de- 
morahze  and  corrupt  others,  encouraging  them  in  the  same 
fraudulent  course  while  they  themselves  reap  the  wages 
of  then-  unblushing  iniquity.    The  most  blighting  curse 
in  a  community  is  a  rich  man  who  uses  his  riches  only  to 
oppress  and  demoralize  the  people.     The  power  of  such 
a  man  IS  irresistible,  and  if  it  be  arrayed  against  virtue, 
morahty  and  religion  it  is  a  Uving  curse. 

Money,  when  not  sanctified,  cherishes  pride,  absorbs 
the  whole  man  in  the  interests  of  mammon,  blinds  the 
eyes  of  the  mind  to  aU  future  reahties,  and  makes  the  man 
but  the  bond  slave  of  the  world,  the  flesh  and  the  Devil 
instead  of  the  overwhelming  power  which  money  is  fitted 
to  exercise  for  good  in  the  worid,  it  is  made,  by  its  per- 
.  version,  the  mightiest  agency  for  evil. 

.Avarice,  covetousness,  love  of  ho^ding-aU  instiga- 
tions of  the  Evil  One-absorb  a  M'orld  of  the  earth's  treas- 
ures, and  consequently  abskact  them  from  the  various 
uses  of  benevolence,  philanthropy  and  human  im^^rove- 
ment.  vVhat  he  cannot  subsidize  directly  in  his  own 
service  he  will  lock  up  in  the  gloomy  cells  of  the  miser, 
and  thus  qmte  as  effectively  withdraw  it  from  the  pur- 


UNRIGHTEOUS  INVESTMENTS.  261 

poses  of  useful  activity.    How  much  i»  thus  perverted 
and  completely  neuMzed,  as  to  any  benefit  to  mlnVr 
'beast,  It  IS  impossible  to  make  any  probable  estimate 
Hundreds  of  miUions  are  in  this  way  put  beyond  the 
reach  of  any  human  utility.  ^         ^® 

It  was  the  accursed  love  of   gold   that  moved  the 
Spaniards  to  ravage  the  territories  of  Mexico,  to  violat^ 

Tor'Tf  °''"'"^  -dhumanity-tomlssacrelt 
people,  and  to  perpetrate  the  most  horrid  cruelties.    And 
It  was  the  same  love  of  gold  which  originated  the  nef^ 
nous  slave  trade,  and  perpetuated,  in  more  la^d«  tha^  ours 
the  heaven-provoking  wrong  of  human  bondage 

And,  as  somewhat  akin,  at  least  in  general  consequen- 
ces,  we  may  add  that  of  a  great  variety  of  unrighteous 
mvestments  of  property,  which  not  only  contribut!  noth! 
mgto  human  advancement  or  happiness,  but,  on  the 

contrary,inflict  unmeasured  curses-such  areinvestmente 
m  distilleries,  and  m  mtoxicatmg  drinks,  in  gin  palaces 
and  splendid  gambling-houses,  in  theatres  and^stodcsL 
Sabbath-desecrating  companies;  and  in  ten  thousand 
ways  in  which  money  is  made  to  serve  the  Devil  and 
not  (iod. 

It  is  thus  that  «  sin  reigns  unto  death,"  monopolizing 
ttie  silver  and  the  gold,  and  taking  the  cattle  on  a  thou! 
sand  hilk  and  making  them  serve  the  purposes  of  his  own 
vile  machinations.  °  "wu 

AU  concede  money  to  be  an  agency  of  vast  power-of 
almost  unlimited  power.  And  we  have,  to  some  extent 
shown  h^w  tills  power  is  used-how  perverted  and  made 
toservetheworstinterestsofman.  But  an  enemy  hati 
done  this.  In  the  "restitution  of  aU  things."  money 
shaU  be  rescued  from  the  hands  of  the  Usurper  and 
restored  to  the  service  of  its  rightful  owner.  "In  the 
latter  days  we  shaU  see  what  a  <?omplete  transformation 
tiiere  will  be  m  the  world  when  the  power  and  influence 


262 


THE    POOT-PRINTS  OP  SATAN 


of  money  shall  he  used  to  favor  the  cause  of  righteous- 
ness on  the  earth  and  to  beautify  the  New  Jerusalem 
come  down  from  heaven.  The  right  use  of  property,  with 
all  the  feeUngs,  principles  and  activities  impUed  in  such  a 
use,  will  bring  about  the  Millennium. 

Inference  :  What  a  beautiful,  glorious  world  this  will 
be  when  the  silver  and  the  gold  and  all  its  precious  things 
shall  be  made  to  contribute  to  its  restitution  to  its  Eden 
state.  And  when  all  its  vast  resources  shaU  be  appropri- 
ated to  bless,  and  no  more  to  curse  man,  what  an  immense 
population  the  eaHh  will  be  capable  of  sustaining  I 


xn. 

THE  PERYERSION  OF  WEALTH. 

(continued.) 


BEGAL  AND  ABI8TO0RATIO  EXl-RAVAGANCE— GREAT  ESTATES 
—TEMPTATIONS  OF  H10HE8— WASTE  OF  WEALTH  IN  THE 
MATTER  OF  RELIGION— TEMPLE  OF  BELUS— JUGGERNAUT 
—ST  PETER'S  AT  ROME— TEMPLE  OP  SERINGAPORE— PRO- 
TESTANT EXTRAVAGANCE. 

We  do  not  forget  that  money  is  a  great  power,  design- 
ed on  the  part  of  the  great  Giver  as  a  mighty  agency  for 
good.    We  are  in  little  danger  of  overestimating  the  ras- 
ponsibihties  of  those  who  are  favored  of  heaven  with  an 
abundance  of  the  good  things  of  this  world.    Had  it  been 
the  good  pleasure  of  God  to  have  made  an  eguaZ  distri- 
bution of  these  good  things,  there  doubtless  would  have 
been  a  happy  competence,  as  we  have  said,  to  every 
community,  family  or  individual-enough  to  supply  every 
need  and  minister  to  every  legitimate  want  and  reasonable 
luxury,  but  nothing  for  wanton  waste  or  wicked  extrava- 
gance—nothing to  minister  to  a  single  vice.    The  silver 
and  the  gold,  the  products  of  the  mine  and  the  forest,  of 
the  sea  and  the  dry  land,  if  equally  distributed,  would 
give  a  generous  portion  to  all. 


264 


THE    FOOT-PRINTS  OF  SATAN. 


But  such  is  not  the  plan  of  Providence.  It  is  rathei  to 
make  a  very  unequal  distribution— to  give  to  the  favored 
few  an  abundance,  and  to  the  great  masses  sparingly. 
The  plan  seems  to  be  to  make  the  few  the  almoners  of 
the  many.  Instead  of  directly  supplying  the  wants  of  the 
multitudes,  he  makes  the  favored  few  act  in  his  stead  to 
scatter  his  bounties  to  the  destitute.  In  either  case  he 
makes  it  a  test  of  character  and  a  means  of  grace— the 
rich  how  they  give,  the  poor  how  they  receive. 

We  are  not  without  delightful  examples  of  the  God-like 
generosity  of  the  rich.  Yet  these  are  but  the  exceptions. 
The  rich  receive  bountifully  but  "consume  it  on  their 
lusts."  Examples  of  this  kind  are,  alas!  but  too  abund- 
ant.   We  shall  quote  a  few : 

^  I.  liegal  Fxtravagance.—Kinga  and  queens  have  respon- 
sibilities in  proportion  to  the  profusion  of  wealth  which 
faUs  to  their  lot.    In  the  day  of  Zion's  glory,  when  a 
pure  religion  shaU  reign  in  the  whole  earth,  kings  shaU 
become  nursing  fathers  and  queens  nursing  mothers  to 
the  Church.     They  shall  bring  their  silver  and  their  gold 
with  them  and  devote  it  "to  the  name  of  the  Lord  their 
God.    The  influence  of  their  exalted  position,  the  power 
of  their  wealth  shaU  be  made  to  beautify  Zion— to  build 
up  her  walls,  to  enlarge  her  borders  that  she  may  become 
co-extensive  with  the  earth.    When  this  shaU  be,  the  day 
of  Zion's  triumph  shall  be  near. 

But  how  different  it  is  now  I  Prijicely  wealth  is  to  a 
lamentable  extent  but  the  representative  of  princely  ex- 
travagance. Yet  we  do  not  here  forget  what  is  due  to 
position.  We  would  not  measure  the  king  by  the  subject 
but  accord  to  him  aU  that  by  position  he  may  appropriately 
claim  ;  yet  we  shall,  in  these  high  places,  meet  much  to 
be  set  down  to  a  foolish,  wicked  extravagance.  A  few 
examples  will  illustrate. 
We  may  take  as  a  fair  specimen,  perhaps  the  regal 


COST  or  A  4VEEN. 


9« 


expenditures  ol  Great  Britain.  England  is  a  Mted 
monarchy,  and  we  have  a  right  to  expect,  where  the 
voice  of  the  people  is  heard,  where  the  people  control  the 
finanoes,  regal  expenditures  would  be  measurably  re- 
strained. A  few  statistics  will  show.  We  shall  not  pre- 
tend  to  give  a  fuU  list  of  items. 

1    '^^-   "fo^o"'"  """""^  allowance  of  the  Queen  of  Ene- 

mOOm)  are  assigned  for  the  Queen's  own  private  ^se, 
and  the  remainder  IS  expended  in  the  departments  of  the 

Hoi  *i    r,    r"''.'^  ^"^  ^'^^-^l'  a"  Master  of 
Horse,  the  Clerk  of  the  Kitchen,  the  GenUemen  of  the 
Wine  and  Beer  Cellars,  the  Mistress  of  the  Eobes   Z 
Groom  of  the  Eobes;  to  say  nothing  of  Maids  ofH^or 
Lords  in  waiting  Hereditary  Grand  Falconer,  and  scores 
of  others,  consistmg  mostly  of  men  and  women  of  aristo! 
oratic  rank,  aU  lustily  paid,  and  nearly  all  sinecuresT^d 
m  royal  bounties,  charities,  pensions  and  special  services  • 
aU  to  keep  up  the  domestic   arrangements  of  royalty 
This,  however  does  not  include  the  expense  of  a  large 

^yarslte"^' '"'"  "'^  *"  *■"  ^"'"'"^  ^<'  ^°''  of  'he 

The  foUowing  paragraphs  give  statistics  here  which 

may  not  be  void  of  interest  to  the  reader,  as  he  compares 

.T wi.      "^™'''  °'  *  '^Po'-'l''""'  government. 
When  the  present  sovereign  ascended  the  throne  the 

f rr°/,,      "''  '''°''"  ^  """•»  ^°'  ^^'  maintenance 
was  fixed  by  a  committee  of  the  House  of  Commons  on 

the  basis  of  the  actual  expenditure  during  the  last  year 

X385,000  out  of  which  iOO.OOO  is  set  apart  for  the  priv^ 
pmse  and  the  rest  is  expended  in  keeping  up  the  royS 
establishments,  in  which  is  included  evfiyimagmable 
species  of  e,:pend,tnre  which  can  be  deemed  neceJary  to 
the  comfort  of  the  sovereign,  and  a  great  deal  more^s^ 


266 


THE  POOT-PRINTS  OP  BATAN. 


that  the  £60,000  allotted  to  the  privy  purse  is  absolutely 
in  the  Queen's  hands,  free  from  all  apparent  claims,  for 
any  purpose  whatever.    If  to  this  we  add  some  £40,000 
a  year  enjoyed   by  the  late  Prince  Albert,  £38,000  for  the 
revenues  of  the  Duchy  of  Cornwall,  and  £12,000  ditto  for 
the  Duchy  of  Lancaster,  we  have  a  total  of  about  £150,- 
000,  which  accrues  yearly  to  the  royal  family,  over  and 
above  the  £325,000  of  the  civil  list,  which  is  spent  in 
maintaining  the  royal  establishments.     With  these  facts 
before  us  nobody  can  justly  complain  of  the  parsimony 
of  the  Britsh  nation.    But  what  becomes  of  the  immense 
sum  last  mentioned,  £325,000,  over  which  the  Queen  has 
no  immediate  control,  but  which  is  spent  in  maintaining 
her  vast  household?    Salaries  play  an  important  part 
here.    The  figures  are  terrible ;  but  we  will  venture  upon 
a  brief  summary. 

*•  First  there  is  the  Lord  Steward  with  £2,000  a  year. 
Under  him  are  the  Treasurer,  salary  £904 ;  the  Comp- 
troller of  the  Household,  £904 ;  the  Master  of  the  House- 
hold, £1,158;    the  Clerk    of  the  Kitchen,  £700;    the 
Gentlemen  of  the  Wine  and  Beer  Cellars,  £500  ;  and  the 
Eanger  of  Windsor  Home  Park  (Prince  Albert),  £500. 
Besides  these  sums,  the  Lord  Steward's  department  ab- 
sorbs some  £25,000  in  subordinate  salaries  and  allow- 
ances.   Stepping  into  another  department,  we  encounter 
the  Lord  Chamberlain  with  £2,000  a  year;  the  Vice 
Chamberlain,  £924;   the  Keeper  of  the  Privy  Purse, 
whose  business  it  chiefly  is  to  sign  checks,   £2,000 ;  the 
Mistress  of  the  Robes,  £500 ;  Groom  of  the  Robes,  £800 ; 
eight.Ladies  of  the  Bedchamber,  £500  each ;  eight  Maids 
of  Homor,  £300  each ;  eight  Bedchamber  Women,  £300 
each ;  eight  Lords  in  Waiting,  £702  each ;  eight  Grooms 
in  Waiting,  £335  each ;  four  Gentlemen  Ushers  of  the 
Privy    Chamber,  £200  each;  four  Gentlemen  Ushers, 
daily  waiters,  £150  each ;  four  Grooms  of  the  Privy 


APPENDAGES  OF  BOYALTY.  267 

Chamber,  Xa3  each  ;  eight  quarterly  waiters,  XlOO  each  • 
ten  Grooms  of  the  Great  Chamber,  £40  each ;  Master  of 

Jinn  T'"'"''';."^^^^'  ^""  ^'^8^«  «*  *h«  Back  Stairs 
£400  each ;  SIX  Page,  of  the  Presence,  £180  each ;  eight 
Sergeants-at^Arms,  £100  each.  Then  foUows  the  Eccle- 
siastical Staff  of  the  Household,  £1,236;  the  Sanitary 
establishment,  £2,700  ;  the  State  Band  of  Music  £1  916  • 
ml   Ton" r/  ^t^''  ^^^^'  B-rgemaster  and  Water-' 

?riOQ    .T'n"'!  .^°"-    ^"'P«  °^  Oentlemen-at-Arms, 
-  £5,129  ;  the  Captain  and  Gold  Stick,  £1.000  •  Lieutonanf 

Tsto'tT^T'-f'^''''^''  BeLrer'andsli::^ 
X380 ,  the  Body-Guard  of  Yeomen,  £7,100;  the  Gover- 
nor and  Constable  of  Windsor  Castle,  £1,120  In  the 
department  of  Master  of  Horse  we  find,  the  Master  him- 
nl%  ^2'^^,^,',^^^^^  Equerry,  £1,000;  four  Equerries  in 
Ordinary  £750  each;  Crown  Equerry,  £800 ;  Master  of 

£l%or    tT    '  f'T '  '^^  ^'^'^'-^y  (^rand  Falconer, 
£1,200.    This  portentous  list  does  not  exhaust  aU  the 

details  of  expenditure  in  the  department  of  salaries,  and 
excluding  the  cost  of  what  is  in  the  homely  phrase  called 

living        Most  of  the  offices    above  enumerated  are 
filed  by  members  of  the  aristocracy ;    and  the  duties 
attached  to  them  are  to  a  great  extent  merely  nominal " 
T  ^^""^^!,^"  *^is  the  Queen  draws  from  the  civil  lists  of 
Ireland,  Scotland,  the  Duchy  of  Lancaster  etc.,  as  here- 
ditary  revenue  the  modest  sum  of  $1,415,000,  in  addition 
to  the  sum  of  $1,425,000  voted  her  by  Parliament,  mak- 
ing an  annual  mcome  of  $3,340,0001    Besides  this,  the 
Queen  is  heir  to  aU  persons  without  legal  heirs  who  may 
die  intestate  in  any  part  of  her  empire. 

Another  necessary  expense  of  keeping  up  the  «  honor 

Prfnc^'AtCl*'n^'°""'  "^^  *^«  --  bestowed  upon 
Prince  Albert,  the  Queen's  husband.    This  was  fixed  by 

Parhament  at  $150,000  yearly,  and  Her  Majesty  has 

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double  the  amount.    And  there  is  the  further  sum  of 
$550,000  for  certain  dukes,  duchesses,  etc. 

The  Queen  also  has  the  free  use  of  various  palaces, 
which  are  kept  in  repair  at  the  pubhc  expense.  The  cost 
is  bj  no  means  small,  the  appropriation  for  1856  for 
palaces,  parks,  gardens,  etc.,  being  $1,248,465.  Add  this 
to  the  actual  income  of  the  Queen  and  Prince  Albert,  and 
they  will  be  found  to  receive  as  much  as  $4,988,465  every 
year,  simply  for  personals  and  domestic  expenditure  and 
hoardings.  Whenever  the  Queen  travels  by  land,  the 
tolls  at  the  turnpikes  are  remitted,  and  the  Admiralty 
keep  a  steam  yacht  and  provide  her  table  when  she  takes 
an  excursion  upon  the  water. 

Other  large  sums  for  the  maintenance  of  the  royal 
dignity,  which  do  not  appear  in  the  above  estimate,  are 
sunk  in  jewelry,  plate,  etc.  The  whole  collection  in  what 
is  called  the  Gold  Boom,  at  Windsor  Castle,  is  valued  at 
$12,000,000.  This  includes  only  the  plate  and  a  few 
articles  of  curiosity,  as  the  gold  peacock  from  Delhi, 
valued  at  $150,000 ;  the  footstool  of  Tippoo  Sahib ;  a  solid 
gold  lion  with  crystal  eyes,  the  value  of  whose  gold  alone 
is  $70,000;  and  George  the  Fourth's  celebrated  candelebra 
for  the  dinner  table,  is  valued  at  $50,000 ;  so  heavy  that 
two  men  are  required  to  lift  each ;  and  gold  plate  suffi- 
cient to  dine  two  hundred  and  fifty  persons  with  ample 
changes. 

The  Queen's  plate  at  St.  James's  Palace  alone  is  esti- 
mated to  be  worth  $10,000,000.  The  crown  jewels,  kept 
at  the  Tower  of  London,  are  valued  at  $15,000,000.  The 
crown  worn  by  her  Majesty  on  stat«  occasions  is  worth 
about  £150,000,  and  that  used  at  her  coronation  is 
prized  at  £5,000,000.  Around  this  imperial  diadem  the 
visitor  sees  arranged  diadems,  sceptres,  orbs,  swords  of 
justice  and  mercy,  golden  spurs,  a  golden  wine  fountain 
three  feet  high  and  of  the  same  circumference,  a  golden 


THE  ROYAL  BEDCHAMBER.  269 

bap&mal  font,  chalices,  tankards,  aalt-ceUars,  spoons. 
»d  may  other  massire  utensils  of  gold  used  at  the  eoro- 

oftr4rf  ;a~^'  "  "'  "^  '"^"^'^«  °'  ''"'^«" 

O.W  "T!"  °i  "***  """  ^  Q"^"'  Victoria  on  the 
occasion  of  her  daughter's  marriage,  is  valued  at  $670,000 
-  a  cosUy  bauble,  bedazzled  with  value  enough  to  en- 

tire!™'^°Tr  P*''"'"^"-^.  -r  half  adozen  modem 
volleges.      There  are  twenty  diamonds  round  the  circle  of 

li^e  centre  diamonds,  $10,000  each,  making  $20,000 : 
fifty-four  smaUer  diamonds,  placed  at  the  angle  o  the 
former.  $500 ;  four  crosses,  each  composed  of  ttentflve 
^monds,$60000;  four  large  diamonds  on  the  too  o? 

same'sioVno^'  "^^I"  smaller  diamonds  contained  in 

crosses,  $50  000  j  also  one  hundred  and  forty-one  smaU 

^S?^'.*^^'*^'  twenty-six  diamond,  in  the  up™" 

oross,  $15,500 ;  two  circles  of  pearls  about  the  rim.  $X 

^al.^$^5'9.5^!''  'to-i- the  crown,  exclusive  of  the 
Such  are  some  of  the  bedizenments  of  royalty;  mor« 

LtT  "'''*  ."P.  '"""''«  P^'--'  adornmeniisThr 
t^r^^-^^^ff  '°'  •*«  circulation  of  the  Bible  and 
the  difhsion  of  tie  Gospel  since  the  resurrection  and 
ascension  o.  our  Lord,  and  more  than  enough  to  pl^t 
the  cross  on  every  hillside,  and  in  every  valley-on  IZ 
«Iand  and  continent  on  the  face  of  the  earth.  " 

Or  If  our  Eoyal  Lady  wiU  allow  us  one  peep  into  her 

my  Lord  Chamberlam,  and  having  saluted  by  the  way 
^.ne  scores  of  Maids  of  Honor,  Mistress  andVomof 
Bobes,  Lad.es  of  the  Bedchamber  and  Women  of  the 
Bedchamber,  Lad.es  and  Lords  in  Waiting,  Grooms  of 


270 


THE  FOOT-PBINTS  OF  SATAN. 


i?";- 


the  Privy  Chamber,  and  Gentlemen  Ushers  of  the  Privy 
Chamber,  we  at  length  stand  in  the  august  presence  of 
Har  Majesty.  And  what  is  she  doing?  Why,  surely 
what  every  other  feminine  mortal  does — making  her 
toilet  or  simply  combing  her  hair,  or  rather  having  it 
combed,  or,  in  more  courtly  phrase,  dressed.  But  here 
we  meet  a  man,  the  famous  hair-dresser  of  London,  Mr. 
Isodore.  And  what  does  it  cost  to  adjust  the  locks  of 
our  fair  Queen  ?  And  where  are  aU  those  "  Ladies  of  the 
Bedchamber,"  and  "  Women  of  the  Bedchamber,"  that 
this  man  should  be  needed  for  such  a  service  ?  But  it 
illustrates  again  the  cost  of  royalty.  Ten  thousand 
dollars  a  year  is  the  modest  salary  of  Mr.  Isodore  for 
dressing  Her  Majesty's  hair  twice  a  day !  And  of  one  of 
his  recent  anxious  moments,  a  late  paper  says  : — "  Mr. 
Isodore  had  gone  to  London  in  the  morning  meaning  to 
return  to  Windsor  in  time  for  toUdte,  but  on  arriving  at 
the  station  was  just  five  minutes  too  late,  and  saw  the 
train  depart  without  him.  His  horror  was  great,  as  he 
knew  his  want  of  punctuaUty  would  deprive  him  of  his 
place  ;  so  he  was  obUged  to  tako  a  special  train ;  and  the 
establishment,  feeling  the  importar"  j  of  his  business,  put 
on  extra  steam  and  whisked  him  the  eighteen  miles  in 
eighteen  minutes,  for  eighteen  sterling  pounds." 

Again  we  see  how  the  money  goes  as  it  slips  through 
royal  fingers,  in  the  exchange  of  kingly  presents.  Take 
the  following,  of  recent  occurrence,  as  an  example — 
though  not  among  the  most  munificent.  The  Bajah  of 
Cashmere  has  sent  to  Queen  Victoria  a  tent  of  Cashmere 
shawls,  with  a  bedstead  of  carved  gold,  the  whole  valued 
at  $750,000.  But  this  sinks  into  the  shade  au  of  minor 
worth  when  compared  with  the  present  of  Cleopatra,  the 
famous  Queen  of  Egypt,  to  her  lover  Antony.  It  was  a 
diamond  valued  at  ^£800,000,  or  $4,000,000. 

We  refer  to  England  only  as  an  example.    Some  other 


THE  "SIOK  man's"  EXPENSES. 


271 


European  courts  far  outshine  her  in  the  gorgeousness  of 
kingly  display,  as  the  imperial  throne  of  France,  Bussia, 
Austria,  Spain.  Take  a  single  item.  The  diadem  worn* 
by  the  Princess  Olga,  of  Bussia,  presented  by  her  imperial 
father,  cost  18,000,000  of  francs,  or  $3,384,000.  The 
single  central  diamond  cost  a  milHon  of  francs. 

For  a  "  sick  man,"  says  a  recent  writer,  the  Sultan  of 
Turkey  manages  to  dispose  of  a  heap  of  money  upon  the 
personal  gratification    of  himself  and   household.    To 
"keep  the  pot  boiling"  in  the  imperial  kitchen  costs 
$116,160  per  month,  whilst  the  royal  steeds  run  away 
with  $38,720  in  the  same  period,  supposed  to  be  required 
to  keep  oriental  .nags  in  good  condition.    Five  princesses 
and  their  husbands  modestly  content  themselves  with 
the  bagatelle  of  $267,000  for  the  necessary  expenses  of 
thirty  whole  days,  and  a  brother  cf  the  Sultan  hardly 
makes  both  ends  meet  with  $48,400  per  month.    Then 
thirty-six  wives  of  the  Sultan  {dkar  creatures !)  are  cut  off 
with  $1,548.80  per  month  each,  to  which  out  of  charity 
an  annual  present  of  $4,840,000  or  $403,333  per  month, 
is  distributed  among  them,  by  which  means  they  are  en- 
abled to  "keep  up  appearances,"  and  get  a  supply  of 
sweetmeats,  besides  buying  a  few  jewels,  perhaps.    The 
grand  mistress  of  the  treasure,  with  her  twelve  female 
assistants,  contrive  to  perform  their  duties  on  a  stipend 
of  a  trifle  over  $30,000  per  month;  and  the  780  female 
slaves  of  the  imperial  harem,  who  contribute  to  the 
pleasure  of  His  Majesty,  require  only  $56,000  to  satisfy 
their  moderate  wants  during  the  same  period.    The  chief 
of   the  eunuchs  takes  $34,848,    and  a  thousand    jani- 
tors and  body  guards  are  provided  for  at  the  rate  of  $67,- 
760  per  month.    The  Sultan  is  fond  of  music,  and  a 
dozen  bands  charm  him  for  the  trifle  of  $77,740  per 
month.    The  Sultan  does  not  forget  his  old  friends,  and 
so  those  girls,  married  or  unmarried,  who  have  left  the 


272 


THE  POOT-PMNTS  OF  SATAN. 


harem,  are  consoled  for  the  loss  of  the  light  of  his  coun- 
tenance by  pensions  amounting  altogether  to  a  little  over 
half  a  miUion  of  dollars  once  in  thirty  days.  And  thus 
the  list  goes  on,  until  an  aggregate  of  $3,932,314  per 
month,  or  $47,187,768  yearly,  is  reached.  And  all  for  the 
Sultan  and  his  household.  The  amount  and  items  seem 
fabulous,  but  a  French  paper  avows  that  they  are  copied 
from  the  imperial  registers  themselves. 

And  the  humble  fisherman  at  Bome  has  been  able 
thus  far  to  gather  up  the  fragments  on  the  shores,  so  as 
to  secure  a  very  comfortable  subsistence.    The  income 
of  the  Pope  is  said  to  be  $8,000,000.    Of  this,  $600,000 
are  appropriated  to  his  private  affairs,  $2,192,000  to  pay 
mterests,  $2,700,000  to  support  the  ajmy  and  police 
$600,000  to  support  prisons,  and  $24,000  to  schools. 
Had  we  a  voice  in  the  councils  of  His  Holiness,  we  would 
recommend  an  exchange  of  prison  and  school  appropria- 
tions.    $600,000  for  schools  would,  in  a  few  years,  render 
$24,000  for  prisons  quite  sufficient. 

But  would  we  witness  the  yet  more  profuse  expenditure 
of  wealth  in  palaces  and  imperial  courts  we  must  turn  to 
the  more  luxuriant  Orient.    The  ancient  kings  of  Babylo- 
nia, of  Persia,  of  India,  and  at  a  later  date  the  imperial 
court  of  the  great  Moguls,  shone  with  splendor  no  longer 
seen.    They  were  the    concentration  of  the  boundless 
wealth  of  the,East— of  her  silver  and  gold  and  precious 
stones.    Yet  they  ministered  only  to  the  baser  passions  of 
man  :  to  pride,  ambition,  love  of  pleasure,  and  the  merest 
outward  show.    They  had  no  power  to  bless  the  masses, 
to  enlighten  the  ignorant,  or  diffuse  the  blessings  of  civil- 
ization and  a  pure  rehgion. 

Take  as  a  specimen  :  The  famous  Peacock  Throne  of 
the  Great  Mogul  of  Delhi  cost  160,500,000  pounds  ster- 
hng— money  enough  to  defray  the  whole  expenses  of 
Christian  institutions  for  the  next  generation.    "If  all 


SALARIES  AND  EXPENSE  OP    ROYALTT.  273 

tiie  churches,  chapels  and  cathedrals  of  Scotland  "  sava 
one,  "were  swallowed  up  by  an  earthquake,  a  mer^  frao- 
taon  of  Its  value  would  be  more  than  sufficient  to  rebuild 
them^  all  and  replenish  them  with  aU  the  needed  furni- 

The  palace  of  the  King  of  Oude,  Kaiser  Bagh,  is  said 
to  have  cost  four  millions  of  dollars. 

A  glance  at  the  salaries  of  European  potentates  and 
the  expense  of  royalty  will  appropriately  supplement  the 

S8  2^0  0^0     r-Q  T'  ^''r''  "^  ^---^-^-s  a  salary 

m  *'S  ^n  ^f"^  °^  ^^^'^'  ^^'^^'^ '  Napoleon 
111,  15,000,000;  Emperor  of  Austria,  $4,000,000:  King 

of    Prussia.    $3,000,000;    Victor  Emanuel,  $2,400000- 

Victoria,    $2,200,000;     Isabella    of  Spain    limZl 

4l,^«^?^°''t  T^^  *^^  Emperor  of  Russia  $25,000  a  day  • 
the  Sultan  of  Turkey,  $18,000;  Napoleon,  $14  000;  Em- 
peror of  Austria,  $10,000;    King  of  Prussia,  $8,210- 

vSan^r"\^'^^'j  '^'^^^^  ^^^*°"^'  $6,270;  Leo: 
pold,  $1,643  ;  and  President  Grant,  $68  50 

And  another  list  of  not  less  amount 'represents  the 
appropnations  granted  for  household  expenses  : 

In  the  above  statement  we  have  left  out  the  "pick- 
ings (to  use  an  expression  of  great  modem  significance) 
which  m  some  of  our  great  cities  are  esteemed  of  consid- 
erably more  account  than  lawful  salaries  by  officeholders. 

France  IS  thus  described  inthe  Army  and  Mvy  Journal: 
Ihe  truth  IS,  Prance  has  been  completely  betrayed 
by  the  empire.  Compelled  by  his  insecure  tenure  upon 
power  to  purchase  the  support  of  the  statesmen- who 
managed  the  ciyd,  and  the  generals  who  directed  the  mi- 
htary  affairs  of  the  nation,  the  Emperor  has  favored  fraud 

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274 


THE  POOT-PBDiTS  OP  8ATAN. 


in  every  branch  of  the  service.    Receiving  a  larger  civil 

m)^r^  °'^''  "'°''*'°^  ^  ^^°P«'  amounting  to  37,- 
000,000  franca  in  money,  and  the  free  possession  of  p^ 

000  oon      "°^^^'?^°«'  hi«  «"«'«  income  is  put  at  42.- 
000,000  francs,  or  18,000,000  in  gold.    But  this  was  far 
from  enough.    The  crowds  that  swarm  the  streets  of 
±^aris.  forming  a  repubUc  out  of  a  despotism,  teU  of  the 
fraud  by  which  he  has  taken  enormous  sums  from  the 
amy  fund,  amounting,  it  is  said,  to  a  further  total  of  50,- 
000,000  francs.    The  commutation  money  paid  in  by  rich 
conscripts  has  been  taken,  and  the  old  soldiers  who 
should  be  found  m  the  ranks  as  substitutes  are  not  there, 
l-ay  IS  drawn  for  regiments  at  their  maximum  strength 
which  lack  one  third  of  it.    Forage,  subsistence,  mu- 
nitions, aU  have  been  paid  for  but  not  bought.    In  spite 
of  the  enormous  cost  of  the  armament  of  the  country. 
Gen  Trochu  was  obliged  to  teU  a  crowd  of  new-made  re- 
pubhcans  that  there  were  no  arms  for  them." 

But  this  direct  larceny  was  by  no  means  all.  The 
fraud  was  carried  still  farther,  and  "fat  contracts"  have 
been  more  common  in  France  than  in  any  other  country 
in  the  world.  The  truth  is,  the  personal  government  was 
conducted  by  a  set  of  bold  but  veiy  needy  adventurers; 
and  If  the  misfortunes  of  the  ringleader  are  of  a  kind  to 
silence  the  voice  of  accusation,  the  infinitely  greater  mis- 
fortunes of  the  people  he  has  misled  are  such  as  to  rouse 
It  agam. 

Histoid  has  bonie  to  us  the  report  of  many  instances 
Of  the  most  foohsh  extravagance  among  the  old  Romans. 
We  copy  the  following : 

Cleopatra,  at  an  entertainment  given  to  Antony,  swal- 
^wed  a  pearl  (dissolved  in  vinegar)  worth  £80,000. 
Uaudius  the  comedian,  swaUowed  one  worth  £8,000. 
One  single  dish  cost  Esopus  £80.000,  and  Caligula  spent 
the  same  for  one  supper.    While  the  more  economical 


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ANCIENT  EXTRAVAGANCE.  275 

Heliogabalus  contented  himself  with  a  £20,000  supper 
The  usual  cost  of  a  repast  for  Lentulus  was  $20:000' 
I  he  same  is  said  to  be  true  of  Lucullus. 

Missilla  gave  for  the  house  of  Anthony  ^6400,000  The 
fish  in  Lentulus's  pond  sold  for  X35,000.  Otho,  to  finish 
a  part  of  Nero  «  palace,  spent  £187,000.  And  to  climax 
the  whole  (If  It  be  not  fabulous)  Scaurus  is  said  to  have 
paid  for  his  country  house  and  grounds  $5,852,000 

When  put  by  the  side  of  some  of  these  instances  of 
regal  extravagance,  Napoleon's  display  at  his  second 
marriage  (with  Maria  Louisa)  seems  quito  modest.    The 

cost  2,000,000  francs. 

But  it  shall  not  always  be  so.    The  silver  and  the  gold 
^e    he  Lord's ;  and  he  will  be  honored  with  his  own. 
Ihe  time  will  come  when  these  royal  gifts  and  bounties, 
yet  more  bountifully  ''willjioio  together ''    to  adorn  the 
throne  of  the  Great  King-to  beautify  the  place  of  his 
sanctuary.    "Kings  shall  bring  their  presents  unto  thee. 
The  kings  of  Tarshish  and  the  isles  (the    nations    of 
Europe)  shall  bring  presents ;  the  kings  of  Sheba  and 
Seba  shall  offer  gifts.    Yea,  all  kings  shaU  fall  down  be- 
fore him  ;  all  nations  shall  serve  him."    When  God  shall 
appear  to  lift  up  Zion,  now  trodded  down,  «  kings  shall 
cometo  ttie  brightness  of  her  rismg.     They  shall  bring 
gold  and  incense  "_shaU  lay  their  riches  and  honor  and 
glory  at  the  feet  of  the  great  king ;  and  tiius  shaU  they 
show  forth  the  praises  of  the  Lord." 
n.  History  is  not  wanting  in  iUustrations  of  the  unnat- 
ural accumulations  in  the  hands  of  a  few,  and  their  waste- 
ful and  wicked  extravagance-and   of  the  consequent 
impovenshment  of  the  many.    England  again  furnishes 
examples  of  this  perverted  wealth-perverted,  because 
looked  up  in  the  hands  of  a  few,  and  for  the  most  part 
squandered  m  luxury  or  sunk  in  the  bottomless  pit  of 


f 


276 


IBE    TOOT-PBDrra  OF  SATAN. 


dissipation,  and  consequently  withheld  from  tie  ereal 
arena  of  an  every-day  utUity.-both  in  ministering  t^  the 
common  wants  and  comforts  of  th.  masses  for  whom 
they  were  providentiaUy  intended.-and  from  the  yet 
wider  arena  of  pubUe  improvement  and  human  progrew 
And  of  aU  and  above  all,  perhaps  the  gigantic  land  mo 

h„!i  ^r^-  °'  ^■^»«J''»'"'«  rides  out  of  his  house  a 
hundred  mUes  m  a  straight  line  to  the  sea,  on  his  own 
property.    The  Duke  of  Sutherland  owns  L  couut^™ 

9?^^^  Devonshire,  besides  his  other  estates,  owns 
96,000  acres  m  the  county  of  Derby.  The  Duke  of  Eich- 
mond  has  40.000  acres  at  Goodwood,  and  STOOM  at 

Sdi""  "T""   ^'^  °"^''  "'  Norfolk's  park,  ^  tS  , 
br«les,  contains  600,000  acres.    The  large  domains^ 

fZ^  IT"    7'"  «'^'"  «'""^  "«  absorbing  Z 

32  00^'^r'^r''T  '"•'  P^Prietors,  and  in  1822  by 
32,000.  These  broad  estates  find  room  on  this  nar- 
row  island.  All  over  Enghind,  scattered  at  shorttLr^aL 
among  ship-yards,  mines  and  forges,  are  the  paradisesTf 
the  nobles,  where  the  Uvelong  repose  and  refinemenTa^e 
heightened  by  the  contrast  with  the  roar  of  induXy  Z 
necessity  out  of  which  you  have  stepped.  ^ 

ratWtT^""*  *°  ""^"'"™  *■"«  ^"ff'M- commentary 
writ  s!yT:°""  "™-  °'  "^  ""<*  "'"■"'Po'y  -  ^«^^ 
JIJ'  "^""Id  b«  shocked  at  the  men  who  would,  if  they 
Lttt^m  f  ""  ^'"^"  "  '"^^  ""Sinai  fountains,  Id 
tost     W  ""^  "T""  *"  '«"°*-''«ing«  femishiflg  with 

^il  twf  fi  "" ""  '1"'^^'*  '^^^  '5«-"'»»««  those 
who  If  they  had  the  power,  would  bottle  up  the  air  and 

We  should  feel  an  unutterable  detestation  of  any  who 


WICKED  UND  MONOPOLIES. 


m 


wou  d,  If  they  could,  fence  out  the  sun.  and  let  in  here 
^d  there  a  ray  of  the  sweet  light  to  those  who  could  pay 
for  It     How,  then,  can  we  justify  and  consent  that  our 
laws  should  authorize  some  men  to  cover  with  title  deeds, 
and  hold  as  their  own,  milUons  of  acres  which  they 
cannot  occupy    and  know  not  how  to  improve.  whUe 
mJlions  of  their  fellow-beings,  who  hav.  ha^ds  ti  work 
^e  soil,  and  skJl  to  direct  their  labor,  have  not  a  rood  of 
earth  on  which  to  rear  a  dwelling-place,  much  less  a  field, 
a  vineyard  an  orchard,  or  a  garden-as  every  Jew  had- 
from  which  to  gather  food  for  his  family  ? 

lengths  Christian  men  may  go  in  this  iniquity  of  land  mo- 
nopoly^ that  the  soil  of  Great  Britain,  occupied  by  B^ 
000  000  of  people,  should  all  be  held  by  a  few  thousands  ; 
tiiat  mimense  tracts  are  kept  unoccupied,  that  they  may 
be  occasionally  visited  by  their  lordly  owners  for  pur- 
poses  of  id^e  and  cruel  sports,  and  that  those  portions  of 
land  which  the  monopoUsts  allow  to  be  used  for  the 
purposes  for  which  God  made  the  earth  should  be  leased 
and  released  at  such  rates  that  the  men  and  women  who 
tiU  them  can,  by  their  utmost  diligence  and  economy 
raise  barely  enough  to  pay  first  rents,  and  the  tithes,  and 
tlien  to  keep  themselves  from  starvation !" 

And  who  too  often  is  ike  landlord?  Lord  Courtney, 
son  of  the  Earl  of  Devon,  has  an  immense  estate,  yet  he 
s  said  to  owe  ^1.200,000  or  $6,000,000,  and  can  pay  but 
ton  shiUmgs  on  the  pound.  During  the  few  past  years  he 
has  been  living  at  the  rate  of  £100,000  or  $600,000  a 
year.  His  tailor's  bm  in  a  single  year  amounted  to 
twelve  thousand  pounds. 

But  we  may  come  nearer  home,  even  to  our  own  plain 
repubhcan  people.  A  Philadelphia  letter-writer  says  of 
a  party  which  was  given  by  Mrs.  Rush,  a  milUonnaire  of 
mat  city,  a  few  days  ago  : 


278 


THE  FOOT-PMNTS  OF  SATAN. 


About  two  thousand  iavittttions  were  iasued.  and  the 
entire  cost  of  the  entertainment.  I  am  informed,  was  in 
the  vicinity  of  $20,000.  the  bare  item  of  bouquets  alone 
costing  11,000.  which  were  distributed  in  elegant  profu- 
sion around  her  splendid  mansion.    It  was  nothing  but 
one  incessant  revelling  in  luxury  from  beginning  to  end. 
At  half-past-four  in  the  morning  green  tea,  sweet  bread, 
and  terrapms,  as  the  closing  feast  preparatory  to  the  de- 
parture of  the  remaining  guests,  were  served  up."    Aud 
we  more  than  suspect  that  Madame  Rush  is  not  the  only 
milhonnaire  in  this  land  of  repubhcan  simpUcity  who  goes 
into  those  httle  twenty  thousand  dollar  episodes. 

The  following  little  item  shows  how  the  money  goes  in 
one  ot  our  young  and  thriving  towns  of  the  West 

tq  ««rrrjr,^"'"°^'  ^"•'  'P^^*  ^2.604.000  for  groceries, 
f d^82.000  for  hquors  and  $1,008,000  for  tobacco. 

But  how  much  faster  would  she  grow,  and  how  much 
more  healthful  would  be  her  thrift  if  these  vast  resources, 
now  perverted  only  to  weaken  and  demoralize  and  sadly 
retard  her  real  prosperity,  were  employed  to  further  her 
educational,  physical  or  moral  interests.  But  Quincy  is 
probably  not  at  all  singular  in  her  perversion,  and  worse 
than  waste,  of  her  resources. 

Perhaps  the  Devil  finds  a  fairer  field  for  his  monopo- 
lies of  wealth  in  the  covering  of  the  outer  man  than  in 
the  feeding  of  the  inner.  Dress,  dress,  extravagance  in 
dress,  is  his  darling  device.  We  shall  not  pretend  to  ad- 
duce exact  statistics  here ;  but  only  present  what  some 
people  say  on  this  delicate  theme,  and  leave  the  gentle 
reader  to  compare  what  ive  say  with  what  she  may  hap- 
pen to  know.  ^ 

"There  are  in  New  York  and  Brooklyn  not  less  than 
five  thousand  ladies  whose  dress  bill  could  not  average 
less  than  two  thousand  dollars  each,  or  ten  millions  for 
all. 


THE  COST  OF  DEAB  WOMAN. 


279 


"  There  are  five  thousand  more  whose  dress  expenses 
will  average  one  thousand  each,  or  five  millions  of  dol- 
lars for  the  whole  number,  and  five  millions  of  dollars 
more  would  not  cover  the  dress  expen&es  of  those  whose 
bills  average  every  year  from  two  to  five  hundred  dol- 
lars. Thus,  at  a  low  estimate,  the  annual  cost  of  dress- 
ing our  fashionable  ladies  is  twenty  millions  of  dollars. 
Perhaps  we  should  not  exceed  the  truth,  if  we  estimated 
the  annual  cost  of  dressing  and  jewelling  the  ladies  of 
New  York  and  its  vicinity  at  from  thirty  to  forty  mil- 
lions of  dollars. 

"  What  wonder  that  poverty  and  sufiering  are  so  rife 
in  that  city?  Twenty  millions  of  dollars,  to  say  the 
least,  wasted  in  finery  and  extravagance—worse  than 
wasted." 

Or  see  how  another  writer  puts  it.  He  says  :  "  It  ia 
estimated  that  there  are  6u0,000  ladies  in  the  United 
States  that  spend  $250  a  year,  on  an  average,  for  for- 
eign drygoods,  equal  to  $125,000,000  annuaUy."  So 
much  capital  withdrawn  from  home  industry  and  ex- 
pended in  foreign  markets.  No  wonder  exchange  is  so 
against  us. 

It  is  said  there  are  not  wanting  individual  ladies  who 
spend  on  dress  alone  from  $2,000  to  $10,000  a  year. 

"A  fashionable  drygoods  dealer  advertises  a  lace 
scarf  worth  fifteen  hundred  dollars.  Another  has  a  bri- 
dal dress,  for  which  he  asks  twelve  hundred  dollars. 
Bonnets  at  two  hundred  dollars  are  not  unfrequently 
sold.  Cashmeres,  from  three  hundred  and  upwards  to 
two  thousand  dollars,  are  seen  by  dozens  in  a  walk  along 
Broadway.  A  hundred  dollars  is  quite  a  common  price 
for  a  silk  gown.  In  a  word,  extravagance  in  dress  has 
reached  a  height  which  would  have  frightened  our  pru- 
dent grandmothers  and  appalled  their  husbands.  A 
fashionable  lady  spends  annually  on  her  milliner,  man- 


v'a  ••'■ 


280 


THE    FOOT-PRINTG  OP  SATAN. 


tua-maker  and  laoe-deale  .♦  a  sum  that  would  have  sup- 
ported an  entire  household,  even  in  her  own  rank  in  life 
in  the  days  of  Mrs.  Washington."  * 

Add  to  this,  expenditures  for  opera  tickets,  for  a  sum- 
iner  trip  to  the  Springs,  and  for  a  score  of  other  inevit- 
able et  ceteras,  and  you  get  some  idea  of  the  compara- 
tively  wanton  waste  of  money  carried  on  year  after  year 
by  thousands,  if  not  by  tens  of  thousands,  of  American 
women. 

But  is  this  wanton  waste  and  wicked  extravagance  a 
sm  ony  of  women?    A  disgusting  tale  might  be  re- 
hearsed  on  the  other  side.    Wine,  cigars,  horse-racing, 
and  many  foolish,  and  some  unmentionable  expenditures 
absorb  their  millions,  which  do  but  too  nearly  match 
with  the  millions  squandered  by  the  other  sex.     Take 
the  foUowing,  which  recently  appeared  in  a  New  York 
Wer,  as  perhaps  not  altogetLer  a  rare  specimen  of  a 
WaU-street  sprig,  who  would  seem  only  to  need  a  little 
more  age,  and  tact  and  experience,  and  the  means  of 
gratification,  vo  make  him  a  full-grown  omn  in  all  the 
fooleries  and  sins  of  a  fashionable  extravagance. 

"Fast    Young    Mm   in    New    YorL~To  show  your 
readers  that  extravagance  here  is  not  such  an  exception 
as  those  people  probably  will  say  who  prefer  to  take  a 
rose-colored  view  of  things  financial,  I  append  a  copy 
of  a  stray  piece  of  paper,  apparently  forming  a  part  of 
a  memorandum-book,  which  was  found  on  the  street  a 
few  days  since  by  one  of  our  New  York  journalists. 
The  latter  permitted  me  to  copy  it.    It  appeared  to  be 
the  page  of  a  diary,  on  which  a  conscientious  Wall- 
street  youth  had  put  down  his  expenses  for  September 
ord.    Here  they  are : 

Breakfast  at  Delmonico ^qqq 

Omnibus  to  Wall  Street ....  .*..'.'.*.  *  *  *  [      .'jq 


'X  ' 


PAST  YOUNG  man's  BILL.  281 

Sundries  to  facilitate  business  aflfairs ....     3.00 

Bet  and  lost  a  hat 10.00 

To  a  poor  man .05 

Luncheon  at  Delmonico 2.00 

Eefreshments  in  the  afternoon 2.00 

Omnibus  going  up  town lo 

Dinner  at  the  Hoffman  House 9.00 

Carriage  for  self  and  Miss  Z 10.00 

Ice  cream  for  Miss  Z i.oo 

Having  brought  Miss  Z.  home,  went  to 

Pierce's  and  lost 22.00 

"Went  to  Morrissej  to  regain  what  I  had 

lost  at  Pierce's,  and  lost  again 47.OO 

Left  Morrissey  and  took  another  carriage    3.50 
A  man  is  not  made  of  wood 25.00 

Total  expenses  for  September  3rd,  $140.75 

"  Now  I  do  not  wish  to  be  understood  as  saying  that 
all  Wall  Street  people  waste  their  money  day  after  day 
in  the  above  style,  but  I  do  say  that  the  memorandum 
picked  up  by  my  journalistic  friend  gives  a  fair  example 
of  the  manner  in  which  a  large  class  of  our  influential 
young  men  live  now-a-daya.  It  is  they  who  give  what 
is  called  tone  to  '  society,'  and  it  is  only  when  they  com- 
mence to  reduce  their  daily  expenses,  that  there  is  the 
least  glimmering  of  a  hope  that  our  public  expenditures 
will  be  kept  within  bounds." 

But  does  not  the  habit  of  profuse  expenditure  make 
the  same  individuals  liberal  givers  in  every  work  of  be- 
nevolence and  philanthropy?  In  reply  to  this  the  wri- 
ter already  quoted  well  exclaims  : 

"  Give  of  their  substance  to  objects  charitable  or  mer- 
ciful !  "What  have  they  to  give  for  any  benevolent  en- 
terprise after  deducting  bills  for  dress,  equipage,  pas- 


283 


THE  TOor-rann8  of  satan. 


I         I 


times,  Wiousfeastinga?  Give?  What  have  they  to 
give  when  aU  is  on  the  back  or  in  the  wardrobe  ?  The 
great  mass  of  the  people  are  Uving  above  their  inoome 
Who  can  doubt  that  this  wicked  expenditure  of  GoTs 
oueTt^is  „  ^''*^-  r'*-  '•''^-"*'^°'-  '"^tionable  et! 
tion,  the  fearful  judgments  of  the  Almighty  ?" 

But  other  instances  of  waste  yet  more  senseless  »n^ 
isgust^g  m^ht  be  quoted.    A^single  e  JmM  s"' 
fice.    ^here  died  recently  in  London  a  notorious  elut 
ton     Some  called  him  a  princely  glutton,    ^ten  ™at 

rope  toLLfr  °'  ^'"'■'^-    H«  ''-»-''  °"  Eu! 
rope  to  gratify  his  appetite,  and  had  agents  in  China 

Mexico  and  Canada  to  supply  him  with  all  the  rarlt 

deicacies.    A  single  dish  cost  £50.    He  waited  tmhs 

patrimony  was  consumed  before  he  quitted  life.     When 

the  fatal  day  arrived,  only  one  guinea,  a  single  shirraLd 

a  battered  hat  remained.    With  the  guinea  he  CghTa 

woodcock  which  he  had  served  up  in  the  highest  iSyle 

of  the  cuhnarv  art^g„e  himself  two  hours'  rest  tTel 

arrirS.''"""'^'  ^'"° ''" ''-"''  ^°-  '^^ 

We  may  take  the  following  appropriation  of  a  much 
smaUer  sum  as  a  beautiful  and  noteworthy  contrasr 

ladvlrB^"'  "T  ""-'  "^  ^W-A  -aithy 
faf feist tr  15,^"  ^'"T?.''  Day  prepared  a  bounti' 
lui  least  for  1 500  poor  children  of  that  city  in  Faneuil 

fortable  garment  and  a  pair  of  shoes."  ■ 

t„h.f      "/^f?'""^''^'''^"'^  contrast,  though  it  is 

rie  of  tSfva  "  ""'/f '"'  ""^  ™'y  ««M.rexam 
pie  of  extravagance.    A  host  of  our  reallv  fashir.nawl 

women-may  wesayfaAionable  Christ^'LtuHS 
^e  lady  m  question  quite  modest  in  her  outwSl 
aaommentb.    Some  one  puts  it  thus 


DOLLARS  FOR  RIBBONS,  PENNIES  FOR  CHRIST.         283 

"  What  I  have  seen.— I  have  seen  a  woman  professing 
to  love  Christ  more  than  the  world,  clad  in  a  silk  dress 
costing  $75 ;  making  up  and  trimming  of  same,  $40  ; 
bonnet,  (or  apology  for  one,)  $35 ;  velvet  mantle,  $150  ; 
diamond  ring,  $500;  watch,  chain  and  pin  and  other 
trappings,  $300;  total,  $1,100— all  hung  upon  one  frail, 
dymg  worm.  I  have  seen  her  at  a  meeting  in  behalf  of 
homeless  wanderers  in  New  York,  wipe  her  eyes  upon 
an  expensive,  embroidered  handkerchief  at  the  story  of 
their  sufferings,  and  when  the  contribution-box  came 
round,  take  from  her  well-filled  portemonnaie,  of  costly 
workmanship,  twenty.five  cents  to  aid  the  society  formed 
to  promote  their  welfare.  « Ah,'  thought  I,  'doUars  for 
ribbons  and  pennies  for  Christ  1' " 

If  we  revert  to  Boman  history  we  shall  meet  in  the 
private  fortunes  of  great  personages  iUustrations  yet  more 
striking. 

Croesus  possessed  in  landed  property  a  fortune  equal 
to  $8,500,000,  besides  a  large  amount  of  money,  slaves 
and  furniture,  which  amounted  to  an  equal  sum.  He 
used  to  say  that  a  citizen  who  had  not  a  sufficient  sum  to 
support  an  army  or  a  legion,  did  not  deserve  the  title  o! 
a  rich  man.  The  philosopher  Seneca  had  a  fortune  of 
$17,500,000.  Tiberius,  at  his  death,  left  $118,120,000, 
which  Caligula  spent  in  less  than  twelve  months.  Ves- 
pasian, on  ascending  the  throne,  estimated  all  the 
expenses  of  the  State  at  $175,000,000.  The  debts  of 
Milo  amounted  to  $3,000,000.  Csesar,  before  he  entered 
upon  any  office,  owed  $14,975,000.  He  had  purchased 
the  friendsip  of  Curio  for  $2,500,  and  that  of  Lucius  Paul- 
us  for  $1,500,000.  At  the  time  of  the  assassination  of 
Julms  CsBsar,  Antony  was  in  debt  to  the  amount  of  $15,- 
000,000 :  he  owed  this  sum  on  the  ides  of  March,  and  it 
was  paid  by  the  kalends  of  April ;  he  squandered  $2,085- 
000,000.    Lentulus,  the  friend  of  Cicero,  is  said  to  have 


284 


THE  FOOT-PRINTS  OP  SATAN.. 


LwWvT''''';.  ""^"^"^  ^P^"'  ^  ^-P-«-  and 
$2  500  000^  ^  I  7?.  *^'  ^''"*  S^"**°°)  ^500.000,  or 
12,500  000 ;  and  finding,  on  looking  into  his  affairs  that 

he  had  on^  ^00,000,  ($4,000,000,)  he  poisoned  himsetf 

wnicn    no  calculation    can  solve     Th«    r^«^  i.-  i 

springs  from  U  is  the  granderimor'  LpriTbel^e 
of  ,te  unknown  and  hitherto  unmeasured  extentin 
Bhould  guess  at  the  miUions,  I  should  probably  faU  far  on 

obs^nnty  which  hangs  around  the  everr-day  Kfe  of 
fangs,  one  of  the  sources  of  the  awe  wUh  which  tht 

K\T"fu  "'''"•  ^  "J"  "<"  ""i-k  ttat  any  trvt  he 
Bothsohilds  themselyes  know  it. 

In  the  announcement  of  tie  death  of  Mr.  Crawshay 

t  mVZTf'^'"''  »  ^-g'-O.  «  is  stated  thTt 

McSe™  w«Ul.t  ''™"'  """"^  P"""*  »'  «35,000,000. 

JUodern  wealth  has  an  acknowledged  pre-emiienne  in 
pomt  of  practical  utility,  and  as  a  pLr  for  humin  ori 
gress  oyer  the  wealth  of  the  ancients,    lley  were  ril 

^  f ^  mitLt rZT  ^*°"^^'  ^^'  "^ '^  " -^  ™' 
TJ,^,-..  •     ^^"*  ^®^^®  Of  the  term,  a  commercial  peonle 

laments'^ Td  ^  t'"^'  "''""'"''"g  "^'^i'"".  b»'  '» 
UMnsils,  m  shields  and  targets  of  gold,  and  the  like     Tf 

ZZTlTfj^T  *:  P--'e  "-e'commer^e  o  "th" 
S;  Th^  ".''.V*™"""  *>■«  Soneva.1  interests  of 
Booiety.    The  ancient  Persians  abounded  in  the  precious 


WEALTH  OF  THE  ANCIENTS. 


235 


metals  and  minerals  beyond  anything  we  can  at  the 
present  day  well  conceive.  We  read  of  the  "  Immortals  " 
of  Darius,  a  choice  troop  of  10,000  men,  who  appeared 
at  the  battle  of  Issus  clad  in  robes  of  gold  embroidery, 
adorned  with  precious  stones,  and  wore  about  their  necks 
massy  collars  of  pure  gold.  The  chariot  of  Darius  was 
supported  by  statues  of  gold,  and  the  beams,  axle,  and 
wheels  were  studded  with  precious  stones.  Hannibal 
measured  by  the  bushel  the  ear-rings  taken  from  the 
Eomans  slain  at  the  battle  of  Cann©. 

One  is  astonished  at  the  immense  amount  of  gold  and 
silver  and  precious  stones  which  were  found  by  the  early 
conquerors  of  India,  Egypt  and  South  America— not  so 
much  as  a  circulating  medium  or  a  representative  of  trade 
as  in  the  hoarded  treasures  of  temples,  sacred  utensils, 
and  ornamental  trappings.  The  riches  of  the  ancients] 
like  their  learning  and  science,  was  of  little  practical  uti- 
lity. It  had  Uttle  to  do  with  commerce  or  public  im- 
provement. It  was  scarcely  known  then  as  a  lever  of 
human  progress,  or  as  an  angel  of  mercy  to  alleviate  hu- 
man suflfering  by  a  well-directed  philanthropy. 

Doubtless  there  was  never  a  time  when  the  power  of 
money  was  made  to  contribute  so  essentially  to  the  bless- 
ing and  elevatmg  our  race  as  at  the  present  time.  It  is 
not  because  we  yet  have  mare  of  the  precious  metals  in 
use  than  the  ancients  had,  but  because  we  make  a  better 
use  of  them.  California  and  Australia,  and  all  other 
El  Dorados,  may  pour  their  precious  treasures  into  our 
land  for  years  to  come  before  we  shall  be  "  replenished  " 
as  was  the  land  of  Judah  in  the  days  of  David  and  Solo- 
mon. 

We  hiiv  .  spoken  of  the  wrong  done  to  o^Aers— the  pri- 
vations and  hardships  suffered  by  the  masses,  from  the 
overgrown  estates  of  the  few ;  a.  surplus  in  the  one  case, 
a  rioting  in  luxury  and  dissipation  among  a  few,  with  a 


:86 


THE    P00T-PMNT8  OF  SATAN. 


consequent  privation  and  destitution,  undue  labor  and  a 
Me-struggle  for  a  common  livelihood  among  the  many 
let  we  would  not  overlook  what  too  often  proves  the  yet 
more   deleterious  influence  of  inflated  wealth    on    the 
owners  themselves.    We  speak  not  now  of  the  pride,  and 
overweemng  and  tyrannical  spirit  too  often  engendered 
by  wealth,  nor  simply  of  the  extravagance  and  pleasure- 
lovmg  prochvities  thereby  cherished,  but  of  the  sadly  de- 
moralizmg  influence  of  wealth  upon  the  worldly  mind- 
especiaUy  that  of  sudden  wealtii.    Caaes  like  the  follow- 
ing  are  not  rare. 

In  1864,  one  of  the  principal  oil  farms  in  Western 
I'ennsylvama,  the  daily  income  of  which  was  $2,000  was 
bequeathed  to  a  young  man  of  twenty.    He  was  bewil- 
dered  by  his  good  fortune,  and  at  once  entered  on  a  career 
of  mad  debauchery,  in  which  he  squandered  two  millions 
of  doUars  m  twenty  months.    He  is  now  a  door-keeper  ^t 
a  place  of  amusement,  and  the  farm  has  been  sold  for 
taxes  due  the  government.    The  young  Duke  of  Hamil- 
ton, the  representative  of  the  Stuarts,  and  of  the  first 
famUym  Scotland,  some  years  ago  succeeded  to  an  estate 
the  annual  mcome  of  which  was  $350,000.    By  means  of 
horse-racing  and  attendaiit  forms  of  dissipation,  every 
one  of  his  lands,  his  palaces,  and  town  residences,  was 
soon  in  the  hands  of  Jew  money-lenders,  and  he  a  pen- 
sioner of  his  creditors.    Fools  and  their  money  are  soon 
parted.  '' 

The  temptations  of  riches  and  the  faciHties  they  afford 
for  hurtful  and  forbidden  gratifications,  make  the  posses- 
sion of  them  doubly  dangerous,  and  impose  responsibi- 
lities and  administer  cautions  of  the  most  serious  charac- 
ter.  He  that  spake  as  never  man  spake,  gave  no 
needless  alarm  when  he  said,  «  How  hardly  shaU  they 
that  have  riches  (that  trust  in  riches)  enter  into  the  king- 
dom of  God.    For  it  is  easier  for  a  camel  to  go  through  a 


COST  OP  HEATHEN  TEMPLES. 


287 


needle's  eje  than  for  the  rich  man  to  enter  into  the 
kingdom  of  God." 

in.  We  have  abeady  in  another  connection  adduced 
examples  of  the  enormous  waste  of  wealth  in  the  matter  of 
false  reUgions.  We  shall  add  a  few  more  and  then 
present  a  few  statistics  showing  that  the  true  Church  is 
but  too  deeply  involved  in  the  same  sin. 

It  is  known  to  have  been  the  custom  of  the  ancients  to 
make  their  temples  the  repositories  of  vast  riches,  as  well 
as  to  spend  fabulous  sums  in  the  edifices  and  the  appur- 
tenances thereof.    The  temple  of  Belus  in  Babylon  was 
an  accumulation  of  two  thousand  years.    Xerxes,  on  his 
return  from  his  Grecian  expedition,  having  first  plundered 
this  temple  of  its  immense  riches,  demoUshed  it  entirely. 
He  took  away  gold,  it  is  said,  to  the  value  of  ^£21,000,000 
or  $100,000,000.    The  image  -/hich  Nebuchadnezzar  set 
up  was  of  gold,  sixty-six  fe(.c  high.    Another  image  is 
described— it  may  be  the  original  one  of  the  temple— forty 
feet  in  height,  of  pure  gold,  which  contained  riches  to  the 
amount  of  a  thousand  Babylonian  talents,  or  £3,500,000. 
And  various  lesser  images  contained  in  the  aggregate 
6,000    talents,    or  £17,000,000.      Xerxes  carried    off  a 
golden  statue  of  a  god  twelve  cubits  in  height.    Besides 
these,  vast  sums  were  invested  in  furniture,  utensils,  vest- 
ments, statues,  tables,  censers,  sacred  vessels,  and  altars 
for  sacrifice,  all  of  the  purest  gold,  said  to  be  valued  at 
$100,000,000. 

This  famous  temple,  having  the  external  appearance  of 
consisting  of  eight  towers  built  one  above  the  other, 
stood  on  a  base  which  was  a  square  of  a  furlong  on  each 
side,  and  its  topmost  tower  is  said  to  have  been  a  furlong 
in  height,  giving  the  whole  the  appearance  of  being 
one  huge  pyramid,  more  magnificent  than  the  pyramids 
of  Egypt.    ••  We  have  good  reason  to  believe,"  says  Kol- 


!  i 


288 


THE  POOT-PRINTS  OF  SATAN. 


lin,  "as  Booharfc  asserts,  that  this  is  the^  very  same  tower 
which  was  built  there  at  the  confusion  of  languages." 

Such  a  supposition  (if  it  be  no  more)  would  seem  to  give 
additional  appropriateness  to  our  general  title.  This  most 
stupendous  of  all  idol  temples  may  be  taken  as  the  first 
great,  bold  chaUenge  of  the  god  of  this  world  in  the  fierce 
.•onflict  now  fairly  inaugurated  for  the  dominion  of  the 
earth. 

The  Temple  of  Juggernaut  at  Puri,  in  the  district  of 
Orissa,  India,  built  in  the  12th  century,  is  said  to  have 
cost  $2,000,000.  The  principal  tower  rises  to  the  height 
of  184  feet.  The  wall  which  surrounds  the  temple  is 
twenty-one  feet  high,  forming  an  enclosure  650  feet 
square.  And  if  we  add  to  this  first^tem  in  the  account 
the  uncounted  treasures  invested  in  the  paraphernalia  of 
the  temple,  in  the  expense  of  worship,  in  the  rich  offerings 
which  are  continually  made,  in  pilgrimages  thither,  and 
in  the  annual  festivals  and  immense  processions,  we  have 
an  amount  exceeding  the  entire  aggregate  expended  for 
Christian  missions  in  India  the  last  fifty  years. 

Yet  this  is  but  an  item  when  compared  with  the  expen- 
ditures of  the  Papal  Church.    St.  Peter's  church  at  Rome 
IS  said  to  have  cost,  first  and  last,  $200,000,000.    But 
this  is  no  more  than  the  beginning  of  Rome's  expenditures. 
The  investment  in  the  brick  and  mortar  of  that  magnifi- 
cent edifice  is  but  a  small  part  of  the  wealth  of  St. 
Peter's.    The  silver  and  gold,  the  sacred  vessels  and 
costly  vestments,  diamonds,  precious  stones— in  all,  un- 
told treasures— are  abstracted  from  the  common  utihties 
of  life  and  from  the  great  works  of  philanthropy  and  be- 
nevolence   with  which    the  Church   of   Christ    stands 
charged,  and  made  but  to  pamper  the  pride,  the  ambition 
and  extravagance  of  the  Papal  hierarchy. 

A  late  traveller,  speaking  of  the  churches  of  Rome  and 
the  immense   amounts  of   treasure   invested   in   these 


u 


I 


MONEY  AND  PAPAL  ROME. 


289 


sb-uotures  says  "the  aggregate  would  pay  the  national 
debt  of  the  United  States,"  which  is  more  than  two 
thousand  million  doUars.  What  superstition  and  devo- 
tion to  a  spurious  Church  has  done  may  yet  be  done  by 
a  holy  devotion  to  the  true  Church.  When  she  shaU  re- 
ceive the  full  Pentecostal  baptism  spoken  of  by  the 
Prophet  Joel,  and  the  «  power"  of  the  Holy  Ghost  shaU 
come  upon  her,  the  channels  of  her  benevolence  shaU 
overflow,  no  resources  shaU  be  wanting  for  any  good 
work,  even  to  the  moral  renovation  of  our  entire  world 

To  say  nothing  of  the  Vatican,  or  of  Pontifical  pala- 
ces or  the  palatial  residences  of  cardinals,  or  of  the  un- 
told sums  lavished  in  regal  profusion  on  the  heads  of  the 
hierarchy ;  it  wiU  be  sufficiently  suggestive  if  we  may 
catch  a  ghmpse  of  a  certain  procession,  but  too  frequent- 
ly  witnessed  by  gazers  in  the  Papal  capital.    It  is  a  pro- 
cession  of  the  Pope  and  his  cardinals,  the  successors  of 
the  poor  fishermen  and  of  Him  who  had  not  where  to  lay 
his  head,  as  on  some  great  Stato  or  rather  Church  occa- 
sion they  show  themselves  to  the  people.    The  sight  is 
suggestive  as  to  how  the  money  goes  in  the  Holy  City- 
how  poor  Peter's  pence  are  expended.    An  eye-witness 
speaks  of  the  princely  carriages  of  the  Pope's  cortege 
hned  with  scarlet  of  the  richest  texture.    The  trappings 
of  the  horses,  the  Uveries  of  the  coachmen  and  footmen 
the  umform  of  the  Papal  guard,  as  also  the  garniture  of 
his  throne  and  the  stool  for  his  feet,  are  of  the  same 
glaring  hue  and  costly  materials.    "Each  cardinal  has 
three  footmen,  one  to  help  him  out  of  the  carriage 
another  to  support  his  scarlet  robe,  and  a  third  to  canry 
his  scarlet  parasol."  ^ , 

Paganism  furnishes  a  parallel  to  this.    Indeed,  the 
more  false  a  rehgion,  the  more  lavish  the  waste  of  wealth 
upon  It.    This  is  one  ol  the  favorite  devices  of  the  Devil 
India  affords  examples.    Dr.  Duff's  description  of  the 

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THE   FOOT-PBINTS  OF  SATAN. 


temple  of  Seringapore  will  serve  our  purpose  as  one  of 
many. 

"  It  is  a  mile  square,  and  in  the  centre  of  each  side  is  a 
tower  of  gigantic  height,  the  lowest  pillars  of  which  are 
single  pieces  of  stone,  forty  feet  long  and  five  feet  square, 
reminding  the  spectator    of  the    stones  of  Solomon's 
temple.    "Within  the  outer  square  are  six  others,  three 
hundred  feet  distant  from  each  other,  and  between  them 
are  numerous  halls.  The  roof  is  supported  by  one  thousand 
pillars,  each  of  one  solid  block  of  stone,  very  finely 
carved  with  figures  of  the  gods  and  other  devices.    Siva, 
ae  god  of  the  place,  is  formed  entirely  of  gold  in  solid 
pieces,  the  entire  height  of  the  statue  being  fifteen  feet. 
The  platform  also  on  which  the  god  rests  is  of  gold.    All 
his  ornaments  are  in  proportion  to  his  size.    The  quanti- 
ty of  emeralds,  pearls,  and  other  precious  stones  which 
adorn  him  is  immense.    No  jeweller's  shop  in  London 
could  exhibit  anything  like  it.    The  whole  gives  an  idea 
of  the  immense  power  of  Brahminism  in  former  days, 
grinding  down  the  people  and  turning  all  their  wealth 
towards  themselves." 

How  humiliating  the  comparison  of  all  this  with  the 
stinted  measure  of  expenditure  for  the  support  and  diffu- 
sion of  the  true  religion.    The  one  is  by  tens,  hundreds, 
or  thousands,  the  other  by  millions  and  hundreds  of 
millions.    It  was  not  exactly  a  vain  boast  of  the  tempter 
that  the  world  With  its  power,  wealth  and  glory  was  his. 
His  claims  have  as  yet  been  almost  universally  conceded. 
And  we  would  that  we  did  not  feel  constrained  here 
to  pass  a  stricture  on  a  certain  class  of  good  and  highly 
respectable  Protestant  churches  of  the  present  day.    We 
hear  of  church  edifices  costing  one,  two,  or  three  hundred 
thousand  dollars  (or  more)  and  the  current  annual  expen- 
ses of  the  same  churches,  five,  ten,  or  twenty  thousand ; 
while  they  would  think  themselves  pressed  beyond  endu- 


OOBPABATTO!  EIPmroiTOM!.  j|gl 

rmce  if  oafled  on  to  give  a  tithe  of  tliis  sum  for  th« 

IS  said  that   the  annual  aggregate  expenses  of  three 
churches  in  New  York  are  seventy  thous^d  dolUrs. 

We  do  notobjeot  to  a  generous  expenditure.  bS^ouIt 
ask  why  m  a  locahty  where  a  church  ediBce  costing  forty 
or  fifty  thousand  dollarsis  suited  to  theloeaUty  andCSd 

to  absorb  «00,000,  leanng  the  church  with  a  burden, 
some  deb  perhaps,  and  affording  a  neyer-faiUng  e^oZ 
for  a  most  stmted  benevolence,  and  this  at  a  period  X 
the  Master  .s  opemng  the  whole  world  for  its  renoyaaotr 
and,  as  never  before,  is  calling  on  his  people  forX  m^; 
generous  and  enlarged  benevolence.  ™"iemost 


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xm. 

PERVEllSION  OF  THE  PRESS. 


IBE  PERIODICAL  PRESS — RELIGIOUS  PRESS— PRESS  OATERINQ 
TO  FRAUD,  CORRUPTION — LICENTIOUSNESS  AND  INFIDELITY 
— ROMANCE —  FICTION — HISTORY  —  THE  TONGUE  —  MUSIC 
AND  SONG— 7THE  CHURCH  AND  THE  OPERA. 

A  SUBJECT  kindred  to  the  last  is  the  press.  The  dis- 
covery of  the  art  of  printing  is  confessedly  a  very  marked 
era  in  the  annals  of  human  progress.  It  revealed  a  new 
and  hitherto  unconceived  power  in  furtherance  of  all  the 
higher  and  best  interests  of  man.  And  the  time  of  this 
discovery  claims  some  special  notice.  It  was  just  as 
the  energies  of  the  truth  and  the  Chur-i^i,  of  civilization 
and  reform  were  rousiiig  themselves  froro  tbejr  Ing  sleef  • 
of  a  thousand  years.  Christianity  win  now  aa  a  bride- 
groom coming  out  of  his  chamber  and  rejoicing  as  a 
strong  man  to  run  a  race. 

Here  commenced  a  new  era  in  the  history  of  the 
Christian  Church.  The  night  was  far  spent,  the  day  was 
rf  ha  A.  Henceforth  she  should  be  nerved  with  new 
Hx.'eiigth  and  ciad  in  new  armor,  and  should  put  forth  a 
new  life  and  go  forth  to  new  victories.    And  among  the 


V   \ 


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PERVERSION  OF  THE  PRESS-FASHIONABLE  LITERATURE. 


'I  T 


THE  PRESS  ▲  BOON  TO  CHBISTIANITY. 


293 


elements  of  power  and  progress  now  vouchsafed  to  her, 
the  press  was  not  the  least.  I  say  vouobMafed  to  the 
Church,  lo  the  one  holy,  catholic,  apostoUc  Church— to 
Christianity  as  a  power  for  the  renovation  of  the  world 
ond  its  final  subjugation  to  Immanuel.  The  press  is  a 
boon  to  Christianity.  It  has  hitherto  been  confined  al- 
most exclusively  to  Christian  nations.  Pagan  nations 
have,  up  to  this  day,  scarcely  used  the  press  at  aU,  and 
Mohammedan  nations  but  very  partially.  And  its  use 
among  Christian  nations  has  been,  it  is  beUeved,  very 
much  in  the  ratio  of  the  purity  of  the  Christianity  cur- 
rent among  them. 

We  may  therefore,  we  think,  safely  assume  that  the 
art  of  printmg  and  the  press  was  a  loan  to  Christianity 
—or  rather  to  the  Reformed  Clurch,  to  stimulate  intel- 
lect, to  diffuse  knowledge,  aud  to  perpetuate  the  triumphs 
of  religion.  As  subordinate  to  these  ends  the  press  is  in 
no  inferior  degree  the  servant  of  science,  the  powerful 
agent  of  civiUzation,  and  the  auxihaiy  of  every  human 
pursuit.    . 

Were  it  my  province  at  present  to  speak  of  the  poiver  of 
the  press,  I  should  be  in  no  danger  of  overrating  its 
importance.    Its  relations  to  education,  to  science,  to  the 
whole  subject  of  human  improvement,  to  the  cause  of 
benevolence  and  the  final  conversion  of  the  world,  are 
important  above  aU  we  are  in  a  position  at  present  to 
conceive.    We  are  so  accustomed  to  coiitempl^+e  human 
affairs  in  connection  with  the  press  and  its  wonderful 
reahzations  that  we  can  form  no   adequate  conception' 
how  many  degrees  the  dial  of  human  improvement  would 
be  turned  back  without  it.    But  for  this  the  history  of  the 
arts  and  sciences  of  the  present  day  might  be  lost  in  the 
mists  of  coming  ages,  as  those  of  past  ages  only  Uve  in  a 
fev^'  imperfect  relics  and  traditions.    Our  confidence  that 
the  tide  of  barbarism  shaU  never  again  run  over  these 


294 


THE  POOT-PBINTS  OF  SATAN. 


liW: 


fair  fields  of  science,  of  art  and  of  religion  is  because  aU 
these  modem  advancements  stand  chronicled  in  the  en- 
during page  of  history.  Every  science,  every  art,  every 
mvention,  discovery  or  improvement  that  blesses  our  age 
IS  tvntten  and  jprinted  and  cannot  be  lost.  Every  succeed- 
ing generation  will  read,  digest  and  improve  on  the  past 
and  m  their  turn  leave  their  record  to  those  who  shall 
follow.  They  can  never  again  be  buried  beneath  the 
rubbish  of  time. 

But  for  the  printing  press  the  forty  miUions  of  copies 
of  the  Word  of  God  which  he  as  good  seed  scattered 
broadcast  over  the  world  and  are  accessible  to  half  the 
population  of  the  globe,  translated  as  it  is  into  160  differ- 
ent  languages,  would  be  reduced  to  some  few  hundreds 
of  copies,  and  these  imprisoned  in  the  libraries  of  the 
learned  and  opulent,  and  generally  inaccessible  because 
locked  upm  an  unknown  tongue.    The  teOious  and  ex- 
pensive process  of  transcribing  the  Bible  with  a  pen 
would  scarcely  aUow  a  more  favorable  supposition.    And 
what  would  be  found  to   be  so  disastrously  true    in 
respect  to  the  multiplication  and  diffusion  of  the  Bible, 
would  not  be  less  true  in  respect  to  education,  to  com- 
merce and  to  the  whole  business  and  progress  of  the 
world.    Annihilate  the  mighty  enginery  of  the  press  and 
you  would  seem  to  bring  to  a  most  painful  stand-still  a 
^eat  part  of  the  machineiy  which  now  keeps  in  motion 
the  wheels  of  the  worid's  business  and  advancement. 

But  my  business  is  not  with  the  power  of  the  press 
though  It  is  invested  with  one  of  the  mightiest  elements 
of  power  which  works  in  human  affairs.  We  are  at 
present  concerned  vdth  the  perversmi  of  this  power  and 
may  arrange  what  we  would  say  on  this  topic  under  the 
foUowmg  heads,  viz.,  the  perversion  of  the  periodical 
press— of  the  religious  press— the  prostitution  of  the 
press  to  the  service  of  fraud,  of  corruption,  of  hurtful 


If.  "I 
'  I,    n 


*iUi. 


THE  PERIODICAL  PBESS. 


295 


amusements,  of  licentiousness,  of  infidelity  and  all  sorts 
of  religious  error.    The  Devil  never  subsidized  in  his 
service  a  mightier  engine  of  mischief,  than  when  he  laid 
his  sacrilegious  hands  on   the  press.    A  popular,  well 
written  book  is  a  power  for  good  or  for  evil  beyond  any 
possible  calculation.     Thousands  and  scores  of  thousands 
may  read  it  on  its  first  issue,  and  if  it  be  an  exponent  of 
the  truth,  and  of  a  sound  morahty,  it  may  endure  to  aU 
coming  generations,  a  healing  medicine  to  the  soul— the 
aliment  of  growth  and  of  mental  and  spiritual  vigor.    On 
the  contrary,  if  it  be  the  vehicle  of  error,  of  immoraUty 
and  vice,  it  is  a  poison  thrown  broadcast  over  the  living 
masses  of  men,  and    eternity  alone    can  compute  the 
number  of  its  victims,  or  the  amount  of  its  mischief. 

We  shall  not  attempt  to  present  fuU  statistics,  but 
only  to  mdicate  the  deplorable  extent  to  which  the  press 
IS  perverted  and  made  to  subserve  the  purposes  of  our 
arch  Foe. 

I.  We  may  call  attention  to  the  periodical  press.  We 
are  in  no  danger  of  overestimating  the  influence  of  the 
newspaper    and    periodical.    As   some  one    has    said: 

"  The  newspaper  is  the  great  educator  of  the  nineteenth 
century.  There  is  no  force  to  b*  compared  with  it ;  it  is 
book,  pulpit,  platform,  and  forum,  all  in  one;  and  there 
is  not  an  interest— religious,  Hterary,  commercial,  scien- 
tific, agricultural,  or  mechanical— that  is  not  within  its 
grasp.  AU  our  churches,  schools,  coUeges,  asylums,  and 
art-galleries,  feel  the  quaking  of  the  printing  press." 

The  preached  gospel  is  justly  conceded  to  be  one  of  the 
mightiest  agencies  for  moral  reform  and  human  progress, 
to  say  nothing  of  its  higher  mission.  Yet  this  agency  is 
confined  within  narrow  limits  when  compared  with  the 
influence  of  the  periodical  press.  Once  or  twice  in  seven 
days  the  pulpit  speaks  to  a  few  thousand  congregations, 
of  a  few  hundreds  each,  while  the  newspaper  is  the  mom- 


296 


THE   TOOT-rRims  OF  SATiM. 


iag  viatant  of  tie  miUions,  seven  dajs  in  the  week  and 
three  hundred  and  skty-fi™  days  in  the  veL    t  T. 

tte  dajj,  the  hourly  preacher.    It  whispers  its  tLh  or 

i„T'  ""r*"  ^'^  °'  "'"^  P"^"  by  the  rLe 
-.n  the  raJway  ear-in  the  street  and  in  the  ooSt 

preaoher    '^f  ■"-""'^  »*  «P«Ple  »«  reached  byZ 
preacher.    The  surging  masses  rise  up  to  welcome  the 
dajy  messages  of  the  press.  "The  newspa^r Tomni^o! 
tent  the  land  oyer."    "  Why,  next  to  tie  Bible  tlTnewr 
Wer-sw.ft-winged  and  everywhere  present  k^Z" 
the   fence,    shoved   under    the   door,  tossed   intoZ 
countmg-house,  laid  on  the  work-beLch.  ^d  h^wk^ 
through   the   cars.     AU   read   it^white    and   Sk- 
Germaa,  Insh,  Swiss,  Spaniard,  French,  and  Arneric^ 
-old  and  young,  good  and  bad,  sick  a.^d  weU^bSZ 

.'STsXld^'eeS^^  —    -   ^ 

puf:n^9e:rsZ^;-r:-^^^^^^ 

consecrated  to  the  truth,  Hberty  and  righfe^^ne^I 
when  It  shall  come  forth  from  th'e  dark  ohtmW  of^ 
and  corruption,  and  go  forth  as  the  herald  of Tw  ^ 
Imowledge  among  all  nations.  Aided  by  the  vafuy  t- 
creased  facilities  for  travel  and  by  the  telegraph  (whil 
^  the  press  winged  with  hghtning)  extended  totol™^ 

^"at^rirr  t  ""^  *"'"■'  ">«  P---^  Hball  become  Z 
great  preacher-the  angel  flying  through  the  midst  of 
heaven  havrng  tie  everlasting  gofpel  to  pfeach  No  th^ 
book,  not  the  teacher,  not  the  preacher  shall,  ftom  dav  to 
day,  bnng  their  daUy  supplies  to  tribes  and  toZ^Ld 
peoples,  that  shaU  daily  crave  the  bread  of  WeTt  the 
daJy  paper-the  ten  thousand  times  ten  thou^I 
streams  of  sanctified  knowledge-the  rills  and  &eHye« 
of  the  Irving  waters,  shall  daUy,  and  hoorly,  and  wXl" 


I   M 


THE  PRESS—HOW  PERVERTED.  297 

speed  of  lightning,  course  over  the  broad  expanse  of  the 
earth,  and  fertilize  aU  its  arid  wastes. 

shghtest  degree  impair  the  power  of  the  gospel  minist^ 
but  rather  give  it  increased  vigor,  honor  and  beautv.    In 
Its  high  and  holy  sjjhere.  the  sacred  office  shaJl  be  yet 
more  influential  and  honored.  ^ 

But  alas  for  the  perversion  of  the  press  I  its  sad  pro^ 
stration  before  the  Dagon  of  this  world !  The  aCight^ 
,newspaper_the  daily,  the  weekly,  and  the  monthly  peri- 
odical-how few  of  these  now  give  utterance  io  the 
sweet  messages  of  truth  and  righteousness  1  How  many 
are  the  merest  pack-horses  of  sin  and  shame,  while  the 

rfrivSuy  ^''  ''^"*''^  ^'''  ^°°^  ^""^  ^''^^  P°*"^*  ^°'  «"«' 
We  shall  not  pretend  to  define  the  proportions  by  sta- 
tistics. The  common  observation  of  any  one  will  suffice 
What  proporhonof  allthe  newspapers  and  perioZl' 
withm  your  knowledge  are  vehicles  of  truth  and  safe 
guides  m   the  great  realities  of  morality  and  religion? 

conflict  with  Satan,  or  array  themselves  under  his  banner 
lo  ment  "  ^PP^^^t^o^  *«  gospel  truth  and  its  deve- 

Of  220  newspapers  published  in  New  York,  only  46  (or 
one  fifth  profess  to  be  channels  of  religious  iince, 
while  of  the  remainmg  174.  fifteen  desecrate  the  Sabbath 
by  making  their  appearance  on  that  day,  twelve  are 
avowedly  the  organs  of  German  infidelity  and  rationaUsm. 
and  eight  bend  their  energies  to  the  task  of  sustaining 
and  propagating  Popery ;  leaving  139  newspapers  which 
may  be  classed  as  secular. 

In  addidon  there  are  issued  from  the  press  in  our 
midst  118  distmct  periodicals  and  magazines,  of  which  26 


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THE    FOOT-PRINTS  OF  SATAN. 


only  are  edited  with  a  view  to  the  dissemination  of 
religious  intelligence  and  instruction. 

But  the  open  avowed  infidelity  of  some  of  these  pubK- 
cations— their  open  opposition  to  the  Sabbath,  the  Bible 
the  Church  and  the  gospel  ministry,  and  to  a  pure' 
religion,  is  not  the  worst  of  the  evil.    Their  virus  hes 
deeper,  more  latent,  more  subtle,  poisonous  and  perni- 
cious.   They  have  not  less  of  the  world  and  the  flesh  than 
the  infidel  publications  of  a  former  age,  but  more  of  the 
Devil— more  of  concealed  skepticism,  more  baptized  infi- 
dehty,  more  rottenness  of  heai-t  beneath  a  fair  exterior. 
Under  the  profession  of  a  more  liberal  Christianity,  a 
Chnstiamty  for  the  times,"  there  lurks  a  poison  more 
dangerous  because  more  subtle  then  ever  cursed  the 
world  m  the  days  of  Paine  or  Voltaire.    Indeed,  the  Devil 
has,  through  these  ten  thousand  daily  avenues  of  influ- 
ence, turned  reformer,  teacher,  preacher— anything  that 
may  the  most  effectually  subserve  the  purposes  of  his 
craft. 

As  says  another  when  writing  on  the  same  theme,  « I 
have  purposely  avoided  particularizing  individual  exam- 
ples of  recklessness  and  immoraUty  in  the  management  of 
that  mighty  engine  which  makes  the  pen  more  powerful 
than  the  sword ;  and,  if  practicable,  it  would  be  appropri- 
ate to  follow  out  this  train^of  thought,  and  enlarge  upon 
the  influence  of  the  metropolitan  press,  and  its  almost 
controlhng  power  over  minds  and  consciences.— But  alas  I 
that  this  influence  is  so  largely  perverted  and  made  only 
a  power  for  evil." 

Our  periodical  press  is  by  no  means  guiltless,  as  it  re- 
spects immoral  teachings  and  influences.  Few  of  our 
journals  and  periodicals  are  decidedly  on  the  side  of 
religion,  or  even  of  sound  morality. 

"If  any  one  doubt  that  the  powers  of  darkness,  the 
agents  of  the  adversary  of  souls,  have  broken  loose  upon 


^i'^'Si'lSEiSKE'iEaffi'JStf.T  1.1 


THE  RELIGIOUS  PRESS., 


299 


the  world,  and  are  working  with  prodigious  energy  at  the 
present  day,  he  need  but  glance  at  some  of  the  issues  of 
the  penodical  press  and  see  in  what  adroit,  seductive 
forms  the  Enemy  is  presenting  temptations  to  youthful 
mmds.    The  agents  of  evil  here  display  a  degree  of  wis- 
dom in  aiming  at  the  young  which  the  friends  of  truth 
may  wisely  emulate.    The  snares  are  laid  everywhere  to 
catch  the  feet  of  the  unwary.    The  great  city,  so  filled 
with  wickedness,  is  full  of  traps  and  pitfalls  into  which 
young  men  are  falling  every  day  to  their  ruin."    And 
among  the  chief  of  these  pitfalls  is  a  corrupt    litera- 
ture. ^ 

II.  The  perversion  of  the  rdicfious  press.    We  use  the 
term  not  to  designate  the  true  religion,  but  what  in  com- 
mon parlance  is  called  religion.    The  press  is  confessedly 
a  mighty  agency  in  the  diffusion  and  defence  of  our  blessed 
religion.    It  gives  light  and  power  to  the  Church.    It 
gives  expansion  to  revelation.    How  restricted  was  ttie 
Word  of  God-within  what  narrow  limits  would  it  now 
be  confined  but  for  the  press  I    The  preacher  of  the  gos- 
pel prodams  the  word,  he  stereotypes  his   utterances, 
whether  they  be  the  words  of  his  Ups,  or  the  mt)re  ma- 
tured thoughts  of  his  study-writes  them  as  with  a  pen 
of  u-on  and  the  point  of  a  diamond,  indehble  as  if  mscribed 
on  the  enduring  rock.    The  press  gives  wings  to  revela- 
tion which  shaU  never  cease  tiU  the  end  of  the  earth 
shall  hear  thereof. 

But  we  need  here  only  adduce  the  judgment  of  our 
enemies  as  to  the  power  of  the  religious  press.  Nothing 
do  the  enemies  of  Christianity  so  fear  as  the  influence  of 
the  press.  No  pains  have  they  spared  to  resist  it.  If 
they  cannot  suppress  it,  they  pervert  it-turn  its  muni- 
tions agamst  the  truth.  Never  has  that  wisdom  which  is 
from  beneath  been  more  craftily  engaged  than  in  its  resis- 
tance  to  the  religious  press  where  resistance  was  praotio- 


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THE 'POOT-PRINTS  OF  SATAN. 


able,  or  monopoly  and  perversion  where  opposition  was 
vain. 

Among  Pagan  nations,  where  the  reign  of  the  Wicked 
One  bore  unquestioned  sw^,  the  press  had  neither  place 
nor  power.  And  the  same  is  essentially  true  among 
Mohammedan  nations.  Not  tiU  Christianity  introduced  the 
Christian  press  among  the  nations  before  unevangelized 
as  an  aggressive  power  against  their  sins  and  erro-s  did 
their  master  introduce  the  infidel  press  as  an  defensive 
power.  The  press,  like  coal  and  the  English  language, 
is  Protestant  and  Christian.  It  is  only  by  ej^tortion,  per- 
version and  abuse  that  it  is  ever  used  in  the  defence  of 
error,  mfidelity  or  sin,  or  in  any  way  to  the  disadvantage 
of  the  truth  and  a  pure  Christianity. 

Yet  it  has  been  made  a  most  formidable  antagonist  of 
aU  Christian  truth.    The  father  of  lies  would  seem  to 
have  exhausted  aU  his  wisdom  and  skill,  his  depravity 
and  power,  in  getting  up  false  philosophies  of  religion 
false  theologies,  rehgious  fictions— anything  and  every- 
thing that  should  seem  to  «  know  God  "  yet  "  glorify  Him 
not  as  God  "—anything  and  everything  that  should  parry 
the  arrows  of  the  truth  and  satisfy  the  mind  with  error. 
The  .rehgious  press  is  teeming  with  books  just  enough 
charged  with  evangelical    truth  to  beguile  the  unwary 
mind,  and  aUay  his  fears  while  he  is  drinking  the  very 
dregs  of  infidehty,  disguised  and  attenuated,  yet  just 
enough  savored  with  a  deadly  yet  covert  skepticism  to 
neutrahze  all  the  truth.    Here  we  might  instance  aU  such 
works  as  '  Benan's  Life  of  Jesus,'  '  Ecce  Homo,'  and 
most  of  our  modern  books  of  fiction.    And  most  of  these 
books  are  religious.    Taking  the  gaxb  of  religion,  they 
stealthily  stab  religion  to  the  heart. 

And  when  we  consider  that  books  of  this  character, 
together  with  the  productions  of  the  irreligious  periodical 
press,  constitute  far  the  greater  portion  of  the  reading  of 


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A  OOBRtJPT  UTEBATURB. 


301 


onr  people,  we  may  form  some  idea  of  the  controlling 
power  in  this  hne  of  influence,  which  the  Devil  has  over 
tne  mind  of  such  a  people. 

.v,^^  '^?  ^®  f  °  ""  °**^°''^  ^^®'«  Christianity  has  had 

the  growth  and  maturity  of  centuries,  much  more  may 

we  expect  to  find  it  so  among  heathen  and  unevangeUzed, 

where  it  is  but  recently  introduced.    The  press  is  no 

sooner  made  an  element  of  influence  on  the  one  side  to 

defend  and  diffuse  the  truth,  than  it  is  brought  in  as  a 

great  antagonistic  power  to  refute  if  it  can,  but  if  not,  to 

pervert  the  truth  and  clothe  error  iij  its  garb.    As  an  ex- 

amplejve  may  instance  what  has  recently  been  reported 

from  Syna,  especially  from   Beirut.    There  the  Devil 

more  than  keeps  pace  with  the  missionary  in  the  use  of 

tiie press.    In  Beirut  there  are  seven  presses  that  "are 

pnntmg  books  of  injurious  tendency."    One  only  (the 

missionary  press)  is  sending  out  the  healing  waters  into 

the  thirsty  ground— seven  to  one. 

It  has  recently  been  announced  with  great  satisfaction 
and  gratitude,  as  a  promising  sign  of  the  times,  that  the 
Bible  has  been  translated  into  Arabic.  The  hundred 
millions  of  that  singular  race,  scattered  as  they  are  over 
all  Western  Asia  and  throughout  the  great  continent  of 
Africa,  may  now  read  the  wonderful  things  of  God 

But  no  sooner  does  light  arise  upon  those  benighted 
regions,  than  the  prince  of  darkness  in  like  manner  by  his 
enchantments,  seeks  to  smother  the  light  by  a  yet  thicker 
darkness.  No  sooner  is  it  announced  that  the  Bible  has 
become  an  open  book  for  the  sons  of  Ishmael,  and  that 
the  press  shall  give  it  wings,  than  the  Devfl  finds  transla- 
tions to  transfer  into  Arabic,  and  the  infidel  press  to 
multiply  and  infidel  clubs  to  propagate  the  writings  of 
Voltaire,  Eugene  Sue  and  such  productions. 
^  But  at  this  very  pomt  there  comes  to  us  a  dehghtful 
instance  of  how  the  Devil  sometimes  gets  toiled  in  his 


802 


THE  POOT-PBINTS  OP  SATAN. 


devices.  At  the  very  time  in  Beirut  when  a  great  flood 
of  infidel  publications  were  pouring  into  that  point,  and 
threatening  to  arrest  in  its  very  incipiency  the  work  of 
the  gospel,  a  Scottish  missionary  relates  the  following 
fact : 

Among  those  who  had  been  led  favorably  to  regard 
the  claims  of  Christianity  was  a  young  lady,  the  daughter 
and  heiress  of  a  Jewish  family,  who  manifested  a  dispo- 
sition to  give  her  heart  to  Christ.  And  there  came  one 
to  her  father,  saying,  "You  fieed  not  distress  yourself 
about  her  conversion ;  I  have  a  book  that  will  quench 
any  desire  she  may  have  towards  Christianity."  The 
book  was  Kenan's  "  Life  of  Jesus."  It  was  placed  in  her 
hands.  She  was  a  young  lady  of  about  nineteen,  well 
educated,  gifted  by  nature  with  a  keen  mind,  sharpened 
by  judicious  discipline.  She  read  it,  and  so  deeply  was 
she  interested  that  she  read  it  a  second  time ;  and  then 
she  came  to  this  missionary,  and  said,  "Kenan's  won 
never  lived.  Kenan's  concessions  to  Jesus,  as  to  what  he 
was,  prove  that  he  was  and  must  have  been  divine." 
Kenan's  book  settled  the  question  in  her  mind,  and  she 
came  forward  to  receive  Christian  baptism. 

But  the  machinations  of  our  enemy  to  oppose  the  pro- 
gress of  the  truth  in  Syria  are  not  peculiar.  In  India,  in 
China,  and  on  the  islands  of  the  sea,  wherever  the  gospel 
has  taken  root  and  the  press  is  used  for  its  diflfusion  and 
defence,  the  infidel  press  is  sure  to  be  used  to  counteract 
its  influence.  The  policy  is  to  shut  out  the  press  from 
the  heathen  as  long  as  possible.  And  all  heathen  coun- 
tries are,  but  too  sad  illustrations  how  effectually  this  has 
been  done.  But  when  in  the  course  of  events — ^in  the 
advancement  of  civilization,  in  the  progress  of  light  and 
knowledge,  in  the  increased  facilities  for  communication 
with  civilized  and  Christian  nations,  and  yet  more  espe- 
cially in  the  spread  over  the  world  of  a  pure  Christianity, 


THE  PBES8  AND  THE  ROMISH  PRIESTHOOD.  303 

the  press  could  no  longer  be  shutout,  the  poUoj  becomes 

LIE '' "  *°  "^^'^ ''  ^  '^^^  ^'  --P*- 

And  in  this  work  of  «  rule  or  ruin  "-prohibiting  the 
ZZ^rT^u""-^  '^^  subsidizing  it  to  their  own  use, 
the  benefit  of  their  own  craft,  the  Papists  perhaps  pre- 
sen    the  most  notable  example.    The  press  is  as  redly 

fhot     P    *'  ^/^'P.'^  ''  Papal  countries  as  it  s  to 
those  of  Pagan  lands.    It  is  in  either  case  effectually  mo- 
nopohzed  by  the  few,  and  that  chiefly  by  the  priesthood. 
Wherever  contact  with  Protestantism,  or  the  progress  of 
civil  and  religious  liberty,  has  forced  op  Papists  the  free- 
dom  of  the  press,  they  have  not  left  a  stone  unturned  so 
to  prostitute  it  as  to  neutralize  its  influence  for  good  ' 
and  to  make  it  the  abettor  and  support  of  error  and  infi! 
dehty  or  at  east  the  channel  of  a  corrupting  and  hurtful 
hterature     And  thus  the  press,  which  was^  desi^d^ 
be,  and  which  is  fitted  to  be.  one  of  the  greatest  blessings 
to  a  people,  is  made  one  of  the  greatest  curses 

Had  we  room  for  statistics  here  we  might  exhibit  an 
appalhng  catalogue  of  the  issues  of  the  Papal  nress 
which  are  fitted  and  designed  to  propagate  anything  but 
the  pure  and  unperverted  truth  of  the  New  Testament. 
There  is  indeed  in  circulation  an  incredible  amount  of 
hterature  tinctured  with  a  spirit  of  hostility  to  revealed 
religion,  and  calculated  to  sow  the  seeds  of  doubt  and 
error  in  the  minds  of  those  who,  like  the  old  Athenians 
employ  themselves  in  nothing  else  but  either  in  tellinJ 
or  m  hearing  some  new  thing."    German  nationalism 

rl^T  T""'.""'^^  ^^  *^"  ^'°°^  «^  i^«  speculations 
tortll,  ""JT^^""^"'  Popery,  in  many  respects 
worse  than  infidehty,  aiming  at  empire  with  character- 
istic  ambition-perhaps  hoping  to  prepare,  even  here,  a 
home  for  the  sovereign  Pontiff-each  has  its  literatiie 
and  its  press,  energetic  and  influential  in  their  respect- 


r 


M 


804 


THE  FOOT-P  BINTS  OF  SATAN. 


Ail 


ive  spheres  and  languages,  wanting  only  the  ahtlity  to 
subvert  republicanism  and  overthrow  evangelical  religion. 

And  as  with  the  press,  so  with  education.  In  Pagan, 
or  purely  Papal  countries,  "  ignorance  is  the  mother  of 
devotion."  In  our  Bepublioan  Protestant  country, 
where  education  is  popular  and  cannot  be  suppressed, 
the  Papists  afifect  a  laudable  zeal  for  it.  They  seize  on 
the  most  eligible  localities  for  their  immense  educational 
establishments,  spare  no  expense  in  their  erection,  and 
leave  nothing  undone  that  shall  draw  into  their  fascinat- 
ing toils  the  unwary  youth  of  Protestant  families. 

And  here  we  might  rehearse  a  sad  tale  of  the  press 
as  prostituted  to  fraud  and  corruption  and  subsidized  in 
the  service  of  party  rancors  and  party  politics,  and  as 
made  to  cater  to  the  worst  passions  and  habits  of  man. 
It  is  the  ever-ready  agency  by  which  the  gambler,  the 
pimp,  the  rumseller,  advertise  their  nefarious  trades  and 
allure  their  willing  victims.  Perhaps  in  nothing  does 
the  prince  of  darkness  more  diabolically  exult  in  his 
wiles  and  in  the  works  of  his  hands  than  in  the  use  he 
makes  of  the  press  in  the  putrid  domains  of  Ucentimisnesa, 

Licentious  literature,  which,  under  cunning  disguises, 
or  with  fearless  eflfrontery,  circulates  among  us— defying 
all  decency,  sapping  the  morals  of  all  classes,  is  doing 
Satan's  work  with  most  mischievous  energy.  But  here 
it  is  difficult  to  gather  very  definite  details.  That  ob- 
scene books  and  prints  are  published,  imported,  and  sold 
in  our  cities  and  through  the  country,  is  a  fact  which  we 
all  are  familiar  with.  Whatever  their  source  or  their 
number,  it  is  easy  to  estimate  their  evil  potency,  and, 
were  the  truth  told,  we  should  learn,  I  doubt  not,  that  to 
the  influence  of  this  inflaming  agency  it  is  due  that  so 
many  young  men  and  women  fall  away  into  evil  courses 
and  make  shipwreck  of  character  and  hope. 

The  statistics  of  this  great  source  of  sin  and  suffering, 


iilijii,;i!llii; 


OOaOnPT  UTMATDBli. 


805 


e^t  bl^Tn  V  r''"''  T™"  ^  °'  ""»'  '""o""-  inter, 
es  ,  but  o  h  m  who  would  attempt  the  oolleotiou  I  o«n 
only  reeoho  the  warnbg  voice  of  TdiBtinguiahed  cl  r^ 

.aid  to  t"  "^^-  "'"'■  *^''  °°'"""«''  "P™  «■«  '"^oi 
'!„.  ?  "'*''  ?"•  y°"  •"«>  '"'"er  handle  the  castawa; 
rags  of  a  enia  I-pox  hospital,  than  meddle  with  matte™ 
connected  w.th  the  class  of  writings  to  which  you  re Lr  " 

warnt  ''  .7  '^'  "  "  '*"'  """"KO'  g"™  "  very  timely 
»«rn  ng  on  th«  important  theme.    He  well  says  :         ' 

avoid  k!/"  ^^  *™'^  P"""'?'"  "'  o«  religion  to 

Wls^o  °7r^r  ""  '"'"''"^  '"'"»'>  '»  "^id  b-^ 
b^d  b^k     T,  '  T^P'^S  company,  the  worst  is  a 

bad  book.    There  can  be  no  doubt  that  the  most  perni- 
cons  mfluences  at  work  in  the  world  at  thrlmen 
come  from  bad  books  and  bad  newspapers.    TheyeTw: 

par  wi^"t".'  r  "  "  "'^'^^'^  pestilence  col 
pared  with  which  the  yellow  fever  and  cholera  and 

a«ai";n  "T  "fr-  'f  '''  """^  '«  -  1"«-«"e 
y™dno?h"  '"■'»  "book  into  your  hands  which 
yon  would  not  be  seen  reading.    Avoid  not  only  all  no- 

those  miserable  sensational  magazines  and  novels  and 
Illustrated  papers    which  are    so   profuselr    scatte«d 
around  on  every  side.    The  demand  whioa'  elts  for 
snch  garbage  speaks  badly  for  the  moral  sense  Ind  n 
tellectual  training  of  those  who  read  them.    If  you  wish 
o  keep  yonr  mind  pure  and  your  soul  in  the  grace  of 
Go^  you  must  make  it  a  firm  and  steady  principle  o 
conduct  never  to  touch  them."  ^ 

Startling  disclosures  have  been  recently  made  in  New 
f»!f  ,i  ^^Sentleman  of  the  city  became  apprised  of  the 
fact  that  systematic  agencies  were  at  work  for  the  circu- 
.  lation  of  lascivious  books  and  pictures  among  the  youth 
o  both  sexes  in  public  and  private  schools  Pursuing 
lu3  inqumes  he  found  that  the  business  was  large,  many 


306 


THE  FOOT-PRINTS  OF  SATAN. 


men  and  women  engaged  in  it,  and  that  by  employing 
agents  to  show  the  publications  to  children  and  youth, 
a  demand  for  them  was  created,  the  secret  supply  was 
kept  up,  and  the  work  of  corruption  dirried  on  to  the 
profit  of  the  trader  and  the  ruin  of  the  young.  He  re- 
sorted to  the  law.  The  sale  of  such  books  is  punish'- 
able  by  a  fine  of  $1,000  and  State  prison  for  one  year. 
Thousands  of  books  and  pictures  were  captured  and  the 
guilty  parties  arrested.  "  A  large  portion  of  these  are 
such  as  cannot  be  described  in  a  public  paper.  The 
details  are  wholly  unfit  for  publication  or  exhibition. 
But  the  fact  is  appalling.  We  venture  to  say  that  no 
decent  person  has  had  the  slightest  suspicion  of  the 
nature  and  magnitude  of  the  evil  now  revealed.  Fami- 
liar as  we  supposed  we  were  with  the  wiles  of  the  Devil 
we  had  no  idea  of  it."  And,  by  means  of  circulars  and 
agents,  the  poison  is  diffused  in  the  country,  until  there 
is  not  a  nook  or  corner  of  the  land  which  is  not  perme- 
ated with  the  virus  of  this  plague. 

But  perhaps  the  yet  more  dangerous  prostitution  of 
the  press  is  met  in  those  sly,  insidious,  characteristically 
Satanic  productions,  which  under  the  guise  of  liberalism 
sap  the  foundations  of  evangelical  religion.  "As  the 
secret  assassin  is  more  to  be  dreaded  than  the  enemy 
who  openly  attacks,  so  the  specious,  plausible,  sugar- 
coated  infidelity  of  much  of  our  current  literature  is  re- 
ally doing  more  harm  than  the  open  attacks  of  such 
journals  as  the  "  Liberal  Christian,"  which  is  at  least  to 
be  respected  for  its  manly  vigor  and  the  clearness  with 
which  it  shows  its  colors.  Let  us  have  pronounced 
opposition  rather  than  pretended  friendliness,  masking 
we  scarcely  know  what."* 

in.  The  extent  to  which  the  press  is  used  in  the  publi- 


*  Ber.  Edward  G.  Bead,  Madison,  Wisconsin. 


BOMANOE  AND  FIOTION.  307 

cation  of  romance  and  fiction  and  of  books  which  ,7  fi, 
do  not  corrupt  the  heart,  do  little  bnUo  dJa'^^^^^^^ 
and  give  pervei^ted  and  false  views  of  life-^f  its  dut°« 
and    responsibilities,    transcends    an/Lms  l'  ou 

rS^T^'T  ^r'-^t-'h,offa:t,ofU" 

tical  utility  of  moral  or  religious  instruction,  are  doubt 

lektTthe    """'*^^'*^^ 

we  know  the  gross  amount  of  reading  matter  which  from 

week  to  week  and  month  to  month  find^  if «  L™ -^ 

But  we  shall  not  e..say  to  canrass  this  bonndless  field 
or  to  g^u       „p  t^^  ^^^.^^  fertfle  sou 

roorl  5,„  •'■  ''"""8  '°  overshadow  it  a^d  to 
root  out  the  precious  grain.  We  need  only  say  aeaiT 
"An  enemy  hath  done  this."  ^  ^     ' 

IV.  We  turn  to  history-how  the  DevU  has  used  the 
press  to  pervert  and  falsify  history.    And  hefe  we  shaU 
do  htUe  more  than  to  refer  to  the  well  knownff  Zl^ 
ceded  faot,  that  the  Devil  has.  fror  thX^g  Z 
much^very  much  to  do  i„  the  mattor  of\e  w^H's 

We  have  alluded  to  the  faot  that  the  DevU  has  lar^el, 

Sodten'^  "^r  1.  """"«  *"«  worfd-s'h^S 
sueptioal  men,  if  not  acknowledeed  infid«l.  i..„      ^ 


308 


THE  FOOT-PRINTS  OF  SATAN. 


often  been  our  historians.  This  has  given  to  history  a 
one-sided  phase.  The  merely  secular  aspect  is  made  to 
show  out.  The  divine  and  providential  view  has  been 
kept  in  the  background.    God  in  history,  they  left  out. 

But  wo  trace  the  footsteps  of  our  Foe  rather  in  his 
audacious  attempts  to  falsify  history  whenever  it  suits 
his  purpose.  We  have  had  honest,  fearless  historians, 
who  have  "given  the  Devil  his  due."  And  skeptical 
historians,  too,  have  left  on  record  many  truths,  very  un- 
palatable to  the  god  of  this  world  and  hard  of  digestion. 
Hence  the  present  daring  onslaught  on  history,  attempt- 
ing to  blot  out  those  disgusting  records  of  persecutions, 
tortures,  massacres,  butcheries  more  barbarous  than 
ever  disgraced  the  veriest  heathen,  but  which  stand 
written  on  the  faithful  page  of  the  history  of  a  hier- 
archy claiming  to  be  the  only  Holy  Catholic  Apostolic 
Church. 

V.  There  is  yet  another  mighty  element  of  power 
which  the  Devil  has  perhaps  more  completely  monopo- 
lized than  any  other.  It  is  the  power  of  speech — language 
— ^TALE.  This  is  more  nearly  connected  with  the  func- 
tions of  the  press  than  at  first  may  seem.  The  press  is 
the  more  formal  and  permanent  expression  of  thought, 
fact,  feeling,  desire.  Speech  is  the  more  common,  uni- 
versal, influential  mode  of  expressing  the  same.  There 
is  no  power  like  that  of  talk.  Is  a  good  to  be  advocated 
or  an  evil  to  be  deprecated,  a  truth  to  be  inculcated  or 
an  error  to  be  exposed,  a  right  to  be  defended,  or  a  wrong 
to  be  made  odious,  talk ;  talk  up  the  one,  talk  down  the 
other.  Let  talk  have  its  perfect  work,  and  the  end  is 
accomplished.  Make  it,  if  need  be,  a  public  talk— em- 
ploy gossip — engage  in  the  advocacy  of  your  particular 
theme,  young  men  and  maidens,  old  men  and  children. 
Talk  of  it  in  the  "  chief  place  of  concourse,  in  the  open- 


;.  '.iitti^g 


TALK  A  MZGHTT  POWER. 


309 


ings  of  the  gates  "-at  home  and  abroad,  and  the  obiect 
18  accomplished,  the  desired  end  gained.  ^ 

Could  we  control  the  common  talk  of  men,  and  make 
It  the  expression  or  advocacy  only  of  the  sood  LTihl 

^SVe^tlff  ^^-.^"*^^*««  f^-thef  ate  t 
vert  the  world  from  sm  to  righteousness.    Every  man 
woman  and  child  would  at  once  become  a  defen/er  and 
a  commender  of  the  truth,  which  makes  free  from'the 
bondage  and  corruption  of  moral  death 

While  on  the  other  hand,  talk  is  the  mightiest  power 
tt  "7>i^'*'^'"1  ^^*^^  ^^^'  employedf  the  tong^r 

fileth  the  who  e  body,  and  setteth  on  fire  the  course  of 
nature,  and  it  is  set  on  fire  of  heU  Tf  ic  a«  ''7'^®^°^ 
"beftaf  "    « rph^  ♦  "  ^®  *^  untamable 

Deast  The  tongue  no  man  can  tame."    It  is  an  un- 

ruly evil,  foil  of  deadly  poison.  And  it  is  th  s  unr'y 
member,  this  untamable,  this  poisonous  evil,  which  ^he 

beguile,  deceive  and  beleaguer-to  assail  truth  with  argu 
ment  or  eloquence,  with  sneer  or  ridicule-by  which  he 
at;7""'°°'  ^°'  ^-°''  -^  -*«  ove'r  lem  the 
Is  character  to  be  assailed,  slander  to  be  propagated 

goodinfluence  tobeneutralized,goodimpresLn^s  fhTch 
iZ  ^l^'^^^^y^^^^  to  be  effaced,  resolutions  to 
reform  to  be  resisted,  temptations  to  evil  to  be  plied,  it 
needs  but  a  drop  from  the  deadly  poison  of  the  tongue 
and  the  work  is  done.  An  insinuation  or  innuendo,  a 
doubt  expressed,  a  sneer  uttered,  a  crafty  argument  used, 
an  appeal  made  to  selfishness,  is  often  quite  sufficient 
to  turn  the  whole  current  of  thought,  and  to  change  the 
whole  course  of  life.    As  a  word  fitly  spoken  may  be 

vibrate  to  all  time,  yea,  be  felt  to  aU  eternity,  so  may 


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THE  FOOT-PBINTS  OF  SATAN. 


a  word  insidiously,  falsely,  perniciously  uttered  change 
the  destiny  of  a  man  in  this  life  and  in  the  life  to  come. 

Well  is  it  said,  "  If  a  man  offend  not  in  word,  the  same 
is  a  perfect  man."  If  Satan  decoy  him  not  through  the 
tongue— if  he  escapes  its  most  insidious,  perilous  temp- 
tation, it  may  be  hoped  he  will  escape  all  others. 
Hence  the  foiling  of  Satan's  devices  in  this  Une  is  recog- 
nized by  the  sacred  writers  as  the  highest  triumph  of 
Christian  virtue  and  the  most  overwhelming  evidence  of 
loyalty  to  the  divine  Master.  "  For,  by  thy  words  thou 
shall  be  justified,  and  by  thy  words  thou  shalt  be  con- 
demned." 

So  true  a  test  of  Christian  character  is  the  right  use 
of  the  tongue  that  an  apostle  says,  "  If  any  man  among 
you  seem  to  be  religious  and  bridleth  not  his  tongue, 
this  man's  religion  is  vain." 

VI.  We  may  not  here  overlook  the  province  of  music 
and  the  power  of  song.  We  may  mistake  in  saying  the 
Devil  is  more  especially  than  elsewhere  in  the  tmigue — 
that  here  is  the  hiding  of  his  power.  He  may  revel  yet 
more  voluptuously  in  music  and  song. 

We  readily  concede  the  power  of  song  for  good — how 
it  soothes  the  disturbed  passions,  cheers  the  desponding 
spirit,  and  lifts  the  soul  to  heaven — how  it  brings  heaven 
down  to  earth,  and  makes  the  song  of  mortals  seem  to 
harmonize  with  the  song  of  angels.  As  armies  meet  in 
mortal  combat  how  often  has  the  inspiration  of  the  na- 
tional song  nerved  them  for  the  fight  and  gained  the 
victory.  The  Marseillaise,  the  Star-spangled  Banner, 
God  save  the  Queen, — ^if  they  have  not  been  more 
mighty  than  cannon,  they  have  given  power  to  cannon 
and  done  much  to  secure  the  triumph. 

But  what  a  tale  may  be  told  when  we  turn  to  the 
perversion  of  song.  When  our  arch  Foe  puts  his  slimy 
fingers  to  the  organ  or  the  harp,  or  his  vile  lips  counterr 


THE  DEVIL  m  MUSIO  AND  BONO.  311 

feit  the  sweet  notes  of  seraphic  melody  to  captivate  the 
human  heart  only  the  more  effectually  to  lead  it  captive 
to  his  own  will,  then  he  seems  to  enter  the  inner  sanctu- 
ary  of  human  mfluence  and  to  send  out  a  latent  but 
mighty  power  for  evil.  Irreligious  and  infidel  song^ 
impure  and  bawdy  baUads-nothing  short  of  the  hisLy 
of  the  vilest  places  and  the  vilest  persons,  can  gauge  the 
dimensions  of  their  power  to  corrupt 

But  we  fear  the  Devil  is  feeling  his  way  and  preparing 
for  a  descent  more  stealthy,  yet  more  daring  fndS 
trous.    We  seem  to  see  him,  with  weU-feifned  grace 
essaying  to  take  a  position  in  the  sanctuary  on  the  holy 
day-first  m  the  choir,  there  in  holy  mockery  to  lift  up 
his  voice  m  pretended  praise  to  God.    Not  content  with 
his  unquestioned  rule  in  the  theatre,  the  opera  and  the 
place  of  unrestrained  Ucense,  he  fain  would  control  the 
choir  of  the  church.    Hence,  with  fair  words  and  gra- 
cious concessions  to  the  sons  and  daughters  of  fashion, 
pnde,  position  who  are  not  unwilling  to  visit  the  sanctu- 
ary once  on  the  Sabbath,  provided  they  may  be  sure  to 
be  entertain^,  if  not  amused,  he  brings  his  music  and 
songs  together  with  his  performers  and  tells  them  to 
smg  these  as  the  songs  of  Zion. 

What  else  does  it  mean  when  we  hear  of  opera  singe'rs 
and  opera  music  in  the  house  of  God,  and  performers, 
detailed  from  the  shrine  of  the  "Black  Crook,"  called  in 
to  guide  the  holy  aspirations  of  the  worshipping  assem- 
bly  in  their  addresses  of  praisa  to  God  ?  And  what  else 
does  It  mean  that  some  of  om/ashionahle  churches  seem 
to  be  rivalling  he  opera  in  supplying  opera  perform- 
ances  gratmtonsly  on  ^ndays,  which  in  their  befitting 
place  must  be  paid  for  on  a  tf eek  day  ? 
^  The  young  lady  unwittingly  told  the  story,  when,  be- 
ing invited  on  Monday  to  go  to  the  opera,  replied,  «  Oh 
no ;  I  went  twice  yesterday."    «  Why,  you  forget,"  said 


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THE  FOOT-PRINTS  OP  SATAN. 


the  gentleman,  "yesterday  was  Sunday."  "Yes,  1 
know,"  she  answered,  "  but  I  went  to  the  Holy  Opera." 
When  the  Church  shall  become  fully  initiated  in  the 
idea  of  introducing  and  ppying  at  a  round  price  opera 
singers  to  please  men,  inst  if  ting  up  the  voice  in  the 

sacred  song  themselves  to  ^      se  God,  the  author  of  this 
innovation  and  sacrilegious  perversion  may  see  the  way 
prepared  to  advance  another  step.    It  may  be  that  fash- 
ionable hearers— shall  I  say  fashionable  church  members? 
— may  in  time  fancy  that  it  would  be  more  in  accordance 
with  the  times  and  present  tastes,  to  substitute  for  the 
present  old-fashioned  prayers,  uttered  in  solemn  tone  as 
if  Gci  were  looking  on,  and  as  if  they  were  the  com- 
munings of  the  soul  with  the  Omniscient  One,  written 
prayers,  got  up  the  better  to  suit  the  times,  and  read  by 
some  Dickens,  or  Fanny  Kemble,  or  Henry  Nicholls,  who 
should  be  called  in  and  paid  for  the  purpose.    This  would 
relieve  many  a  hearer  from  a  disagreable  tedium,  and  aid 
the  opera  singers  in  making  the  church  crf^roc^we  and 
thus  draw  in  the  dite—men  and  women  of  fashion,  wealth 
and  position— who  would  pay  well  and  give  character  to 
the  Church,  and  soon  birds  of  the  same  brilliant  feather 
would  flock  together,  and  with  some  other  like  improve- 
ments, which  would  very  naturally  follow,  the  Church 
would  then  soon  become  almost  as  good  as  the  theatre. 

But  what  is  the  remedy?  How  shall  the  Enemy  here 
be  met?  The  answer  is  simple.  It  is  by  a  return  to 
the  good,  old-fashioned,  scriptural  custom  of  congrega- 
tional singing— to  the  practice  of  the  Apostolic  Church— to 
the  practice  of  the  Christian  Church  for  the  first  three 
centuries,  and  the  usage  of  the  Hebrew  Church.  Sacred 
song  is  the  highest  form  of  divine  service.  Prayer  is  con- 
fession and  petition— employing  God's  favor.  Preaching 
is  the  presentation,  illustration  and  enforcement  of  Di- 
vine Truth.    Sacred  song  is  the  lifting  up  of  the  soul, 


THE  DEVIL  IN  MUSIO  AND  BONO. 


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1 

» 


through  the  voice,  to  God  in  thanksgiving  and  praise. 
It  IS  heavenly.  They  that  "stand  on  the  sea  of  glass 
having  the  harps  of  God,  sing  the  song  of  Moses  and 
the  Lamb. 

Baton  whorti  does  the  duty  or  rather  the  privile^^e  of 
song  here  devolve?  Certainly  on  the  whole  worship-' 
ping  assembly-upon  every  individual  worshipper.  «  Let 
oR  the  people  praise  thee  O  God ;  yea,  let  all  the  people 
praise  thee."  So  did  the  early  Christians.  When  »  filled 
with  the  spirit,  they  spake  to  themselves  in  psalms 
and  hymns,  and  spiritual  songs,  singing  with  grace  in  their 
hearts  to  the  Lord."  "How  is  it,  brethren,  when  ye 
come  together  every  one  of  you  hath  a  psalm  ?" 

And  so  it  was  until  the  Church  lapsed  into  a  conformi- 
ty to  the  world,  departing  from  her  primitive  simphcity 
and  becoming  assimilated  to  the  tastes  and  usages  of 
worldly  men.  Then,  in  hke  manner  as  the  people  of  false 
religions  serve  theii-  god  by  proxy  through  the  priest,  so. 
m  the  decadence  of  a  Uve  Christianity ,  do  the  people  yield 
to  a  hired  quartette  the  service  of  sacred  song. 


Jui-uiJinmBe 


MM 


.  I 


XIV. 
SATAN  IN  FALSE  KELIGIONS. 


THE  ORIGIN,  HISTORY  AND  PHILOSOPHY  OF  FALSE  RELI- 
GIONS— THEIR  RELATION  TO  THE  ONE  TRUE  RELIGION — 
TKE  REVELATION  FROM  HEATEN. 

The  author  not  long  since  prepared  a  treatise  on  the  ori- 
gin, history,  and  philosophy  of  false  religions,  but  especial- 
ly on  their  historic  relations  to  the  one  Divine  rehgion, 
the  revelation  from  heaven.  It  was  designed  for  a  se- 
parate volume,  but  as  it  will  serve  as  an  extended  illus- 
tration of  our  present  theme  we  subsidize  it  to  our 
purpose  here.  Every  people  will  have  a  religion.  And 
whatever  that  religion  may  be,  it  is  sure  to  have  a  con- 
trolling influence.  Give  the  Devil  this  control  and  he 
asks  no  more.  This  mepips  the  control  of  mind,  money, 
social  influence  and  governmental  power — a  control  of 
the  whole  man.  If  a  pure,  true  religion  be  the  richest 
inheritance  a  mortal  can  be  heir  to,  a  false,  corrupt  reli- 
gion is  the  veriest  curse,  and  consequently  the  stronghold 
of  the  adversary.  On  nothing  is  he  so  intently  fixed  as 
to  corrupt  and  divest  of  all  spiritual  strength  the  true  re- 
ligion, and  to  nurture  and  give  power  to  a  false  religion. 

In  his  perversion  of  wealth,  learning,  fashion,  habit, 
he  monopolizes  in  each  a  mighty  power  for  evil,  and 


THE  POWER  OP  RELIGION. 


315 


hinders  an  immense  amount  of  good.  But  in  the  perrer- 
Bion  of  rdiffum  the  monopoly  is  wholesale.  For  in  this 
monopoly  not  only  are  wealth,  learning,  political  power, 
fashion  and  habit  thrown  into  the  arms  of  the  world's 
god  and  adversary,  but  the  yet  mightier  elements  of 
pnes%  influence,  man's  rehgious  instincts,  and  a  preten- 
ded  Divine  sanction  are  made  to  play  a  yet  more /earful 
part  m  the  great  drama  of  sin  and  ruin  which  the  Arch 
X  oe  18  actmg  in  our  world. 

Keligion  is  confessedly  one  of  the  mightiest  elements 
of  power  that  works  among  men.    All  religions  have 
their  martyrs.    No  sacrifices  have  been  too  expensive, 
no  sufferings,  no  inflictions  too  severe  that  men  will  not 
endure  for  their  religion's  sake.    They  wiU  make  pilgrim- 
ages,  they  will  afflict  their  bodies,  and  pour  out  Their 
treasures,  if  you  can  but  persuade  them  that  these  are 
effective  rehgious  acts,  that  will  advance  their  eternal 
interests.    Man  s  religious  instinct  is.  the  world  over  ex- 
ceedingly strong  and  controlling.    WeU  knowing  this 
our  sub  le  Foe  has  left  no  device  untried  that  he  might 
monopolize  and  turn  to  his  own  account  this  all  pervad- 
ing element  of  power.    And  in  nothing  has  he  shown 
more  adroitness,  or  secured  a  more  universal  control  over 
he  human  mmd.    The  brief  survey  we  shaU  be  able  to 
take  of  false  religions  wiU  but  too  obviously  mdicate  how 
successfully  he  has  turned  the  religious  instincts  of  men 
to  Ins  own  account. 

A  favorite  and  very  successful  scheme  of  the  Devil  is 
first  to  falsify  religion  and  then  to  make  the  falsified 
religion  exdn^Jve.  Ke  thus  holds  the  keys  of  heaven 
and  womd  shut  out  all  who  will  not  conform  to  his 
dictation.  Exolusj.veneos-intclerance  is  a  very  sure 
sign  of  a  spurious  religion. 

In  the  survey  we  propose  to  take  of  false  religions  in 
order  to  detect  in  them  the  footsteps  of  the  Foe,  we  shaU 


'til 


816 


THE    FOOT-PRINTS  OF  SATAN. 


consider  their  origin  and  history — their  philosophy  and 
general  character — their  practical  tendencies,  results  and 
influence  on  the  social  and  domestio  condition,  on  litera- 
ture, civilization,  government,  and  human  character  in 
general.  We  shall  have  occasion  to  canvass  the  practi- 
cal bearings  of  religious  intolerance,  and  the  powers  for 
evil  which  have  been  exercised  by  religioua/ratermtiea 
or  great  religious  ordere.  The  great  prevaiUng  systems 
of  false  religions,  as  Romanism,  Islamism,  and  various 
systems  of  idolatry,  will  come  under  review. 

The  ORIGIN  and  history  of  false  religions  will  suffice  for 
the  present  chapter.  Nor  shall  we,  from  the  nature  of 
the  subject,  be  able  to  do  more  than  to  generalize  where 
we  have  but  uncertain  historical  records. 

It  has  ever  been  the  policy  of  Satan  to  forestall  the 
purposes  of  God  and  to  set  up  a  counterfeit  of  what  the 
Lord  hath  declared  he  will  do.  There  is  perhaps  no 
Buch  thing  as  an  absolutely  and  originally  false  reli- 
gion. 

What  we  call  false  religions,  and  what  have  practically 
error  and  falsehood  enough  in  them  to  make  them  almost 
altogether  bad,  are  really  but  the  counterfeits  of  a  true 
religion.  God  probably  inaugurates  no  system  which 
Satan  does  not  mimic.  What  he  cannot  counteract  and 
destroy,  he  will  counterfeit. 

We  shall  assume  at  the  outset  that  the  true  idea  of 
religion  is  a  matter  of  Divine  revelation.  That  man 
should  love,  serve  and  honor  his  God  was  in  the  begin- 
ning a  lesson  taught  by  God  himself.  This  does  not, 
however,  preclude  the  idea  that  nature  uttered  a  voice 
responsive  to  man's  innate  religious  instinct,  and  urged 
home  upon  him  the  same  lessons  of  duty  and  reverence. 
"  The  heavens  declare  the  glory  of  God,  and  the  firma- 
ment showeth  forth  the  works  of  his  hands."  The  suc- 
cession of  day  and  night  proclaim  the  goodness  of  God. 


GOD  flPEAKINQ  IN  NATURE.  3;7 

l'o?Wd  °°n-  m"*".""  'rS-'B*  "here  their  voioo  is 
not  heard.      Divided  as  the  inhabitants  of  the  earth 

passage    s  that  there  is  no  nation,  or  peop  e    or  tribe 
where  nature's  volume  is  not  open,  and  .Ul  who  will  mav 

^^tTraU^X""'*"  "^"'^'  '"^^  -^^"^ 

"&  natare'.  open  Tolume  they  did  r«kl 
Truth,  of  a.  mighUeat  import,  wd  in  ... 
Bow  do™  in  hnmble  Wl,  .„  „n,oen  power  More." 

ooSTo^Hor''i'"  "^"^  ."'''  '»"««-l"«  done  what  it 

vet  !„  M  ,  '™'^  ™'"8*  °'  *  »«%  '«">>  the  earth 
yet  the  Idea  of   one  presiding  and  siipreme  Div^  tv 

works.  Tlie  evidence  may  be  obscured,  and  a  knowledge 
of  Him  be  perverted,  bat  man,  though  wilhouTlhe 
wntten  .evelation,  will  be  forever  inJusablelf  he  So 
jiotdiseemand  revere  this  God.  Were  con  science  ^- 
low^  her  supremacy,  and  reason  not  contravened  Lt 
could  be  no  such  thing  as  a  denial  of  God.  ' 

W  h'^  4  T'  ''•'  "r  *"  ^"^  W»  way  by  this 
Zn  Id  ^  r  ^T  """  "'^  de-erlight  of  reve- 
hri  if;  <t  I  *""  •'"«"  "  «S"  increaling  in  its 
bnlhancy,  through  every  dispensation  of  grace  from  the 
firs  announcement  of  the  promise  to  Adam  to  the  M 
effulgence  of  the  heavenly  Hght  as  it  shines  from  the  ^ 
Wted  cross,  and  so  onward  tiU  it  shall  appear  in  the  mU- 
&^^r.^  ""~'"«^-'  th^perfect'llX 

esL°te  Ve  ■"  "'  rj  ""^  '•■«  P"^'"^  ""'t  tie  better 
estimate   the   mischief  which  the   Enemy  hath  done 

through  h«  counterfeits  or  perversions  of  reUgion  kno™ 
.s  false  rehgions,  we  shaH  need  to  take  a  briS'vW™ 


# 


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THE  FOOT-PRINTS  OF    SATAN. 


least  of  the  different  phases  or  dispensations  in  which  the 
true  religion  has  appeared  and  advanced  in  our  world. 
It  will  serve  our  present  purpose  to  consider  it  under  the 
three  general  aspects:  the  Patriarchal,  the  Abrahamic, 
the  Mosaic,  and  the  Christian.  As  these  are  but  succes- 
sive steps  of  advancement  from  a  less  to  a  more  perfect 
condition,  God  revealing  himself  more  and  more,  and  at 
each  step  bringing  life  and  immortaHty  more  clearly  to 
light,  so  the  Enemy  adjusts  his  malignaht  schemes  for 
counteracting  the  successful  execution  of  the  benevolent 
purposes  of  Heaven.  In  nothing  has  the  hand  of  the 
Adversary  appeared  more  conspicuous  than  in  his  master- 
ly counterworkings  to  thwart,  if  possible,  the  purposes 
and  workings  of  Heaven. 

In  respect  to  the  origin  of  all  false  religions  we  are  con- 
cerned chiefly  with  the  times  of  the  Patriarchal  and 
Abrahamic  dispensations.  While  in  the  subsequent 
modijicationa  of  these  same  systems  we  shall  have  oc- 
casion often  to  refer  to  the  Mosaic  and  the  Christian 
dispensations.  With  the  gradations  of  these  systems 
from  a  less  to  a  more  perfect  state  we  shall  see  how,  in 
his  counterplotting  and  counterworking,  the  Devil  had 
occasion  to  modify,  change,  add  to  or  take  from  an 
old  system  so  as  to  fit  it  to  a  change  of  the  times.  A 
system  of  idolatry  that  would  be  effective  to  his  purpose 
in  a  dark,  gross  age  of  the  world,  would  be  offensive  and 
altogether  inoperative  in  a  different  age.  Hence  his 
change  of  strategy  and  tactics  to  suit  the  times  and  the 
conditions  of  the  world. 

In  the  brief  survey  we  shaU  have  occasion  to  take  of 
the  Patriarchal  reUgion  and  of  corresponding  false  reli- 
gions, we  need  not  go  back  beyond  the  Deluge.  Yet  no 
doubt  if  we  had  the  data  we  should  find  a  no  less  strik- 
ing illustration  of  our  subject  in  those  earlier  centuries. 
The  general  corruption  that  then  prevailed  (for  God 


GOD  SPEAKING  IN  NATURE. 


819 


declares  that  aU  flesh  had  corrupted  his  way  upon  the 
earth)--the  universal  degeneracy  which  so  soon  covered 
the  earth,  of  course  involved  a  most  melancholy  perver- 
sion  of  the  true  religion,  and  of  consequence  corresponding 
inventions  of  false  rehgions.  God  had  revealed  himself 
to  Adam  and  the  true  worship  had  been  established,  and 
a  knowledge  of  salvation  through  a  Mediator  was  made 
known  and  for  a  long  time  preserved.  This  religion  was 
some  centunes  after  Adam  revived  in  the  days  of  Enos 

tl'f  TnT  '^*"  ''  ^^^^^«  on  record'that  Enoch 
walked  with  God,  and  was  not,  for  God  took  him.    How 

the  great  Enemy  of  man  and  of  God  was  allowed  to 

plunge  the  early  generations  of  men  into  sin  and  guilt- 

to  instigate  them  to  swerve  from  the  true  faith,  Vnd  to 

change  the  truth  of  God,  whom  they  knew,  into  a  lie  and 

to  worship  and  serve  the  creatnire  rather  than  the  Creator; 

we  do  not,  in  its  details  know.    The  general  corruption 

that  prevailed  is  but  the  too  sure  voucher  that  he  did  so 

Such  a  state  of  degeneracy  could  scarcely  have  been  ex-' 

cept  as  a  result  of  a  grievous  perversion  of  aU  'true 

rehgion  and  as  the  legitimate  point  of  a  false  system! 

But  we  have  no  need  to  go  beyond  the  Elood. 

It  3««M  ^^""^  ""^  ^?^  ^^'  *^"  *^^  Patriarchal  religion. 
It  was  the  same  as  Adam  and  Seth  and  Enos  and  E^och 
had  professed  and  practiced,  and  the  same  which  after- 
wards warmed  the  hearts  and  guided  the  lives  of  Abraham 
and  David  and  Isaiah.    It  was  the  acknowledgment  of  th^ 

creator'^o?:^^^  *"^%^^''  "^^  '"^^^'^^  g— ^  -^ 
creator  of  all  thmgs,  and  of  one  mediator  between  God 

and  man.     We  meet  with  the  Church  here  in  its  merest 

^pye,  from  which,  through  different  dispensations 

goes  up  from  one  school  to  another-in  the  Mosaic 

S  thtsof  T''^'"'  "^'^  '' ''  "^^^^  *^^  dispensation 
Of  the  Son.    As  some  one  has  said,  «  the  whole  of  the 


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THE  FOOT-PRINTS  OF  SATAN. 


Old  Testament  may  be  taken  as  one  great  and  csompie- 
hensive  system  of  outlines — and  the  New,  as  one  perpe- 
tual system  of  admirable  correspondences  in  the  form  of 
finished  pictures." 

We  may  then  expect  to  find  in  the  religion  of  the 
Patriarchs  only  the  rudest  outlines  of  that  great  and 
glorious  system  of  revelation  and  religion  which  is  found 
matured  in  Christianity,  and  perfected  in  the  final  and 
universal  reign  of  Christ  upon  the  earth. 

Let  us  then  direct  our  inquiries  for  a  few  moments  to 
the  question,  What  was  the  rdigion  of  the  Patriarchs  ? 
This  inquiry  is  the  more  pertinent  to  our  present  subject, 
in  as  much  as  it  is  generally  believed  that  no  period  was 
more  likely  to  have  been  the  period  of  the  general  apos- 
tasy which  occurred  some  time  in  the  Patriarchal  age 
than  the  period  just  preceding  the  call  of  Abraham. 
And  consequently  it  follows  that  the  ancient  systems  of 
idolatry  which  sprung  up,  corrupt  and  corrupting,  were 
the  offspring-r-rather  the  perversions  of  that  first,  rude 
form  of  the  true  religion  which  was  transmitted  through 
Noah  to  his  posterity. 

For  a  knowledge  of  the  religion  of  the  generations 
that  lived  during  the  first  2,000  years  of  the  world  we 
may  have  recourse  to  the  book  of  Job  as  the  only  docu- 
ment extant  to  which  we  may  with  confidence  refer. 
From  this  source  we  learn  that  the  leading  features  of 
the  religion  of  these  ancient  saints  were  that  God  is  one, 
supreme,  all  wise  and  glorious,  the  creator  and  ruler  of 
all  things  ;  that  the  universe  and  all  things  that  appear 
therein  were  not  the  works  of  chance,  but  were  created 
by  this  one  God — that  He  is  a  moral  governor,  dispens- 
ing rewards  and  punishments  according  to  his  character. 
The  existence  of  angels  and  superior  orders  of  inteUigen- 
ces  was  recognized,  and  the  doctrine  of  evil  spirits  was 
received  and  the  existence  of  an  arch-fiend  called  Satan, 


JOB  AS  A  BEUGI0D3  EXPONEHT.  321 

Who  was  allowed  great  control  in  the  affairs  of  men 
Agam,  the  ancients  fuUy  admitted  the  fact  of  mlsM 
and  apos  asy  from  aU  moral  purity,  andhis  propensene^ 
^^t^.r^  "^"f^-^^  they  concede  the  ne'cessityTf 
Th^  nl»  'eooncJaaf  on  with  God  through  a  substitute. 
The  penitent  they  believed  would  find  favor.    But  on 

w^mavrl'l'^  '"*"^  "'«■  «  "«  "«  J*  (»«  I  appose 
r« Ti  /vP""^"' °'  ^^^'  of  *«  Patriarchal 

age,  of  the  .mmortahty  of  the  soul  and  a  state  of  rewards 

light.    Their  notions  here  were  eMeedmsly  vaaue  and 
confiised     " If  a  man  die,  shall  he  Uve  agaL ?'^"]^ 

whet's  iTthTf  '''  '^  «'™""  "'"''«  S""^'.-" 
wnereishei'      The  future  was  to  them 

"The  land  of  darkness  and  the  shadow  of  death- 

of  death         "'  ^'  *^"  ^^^«^^^««  of  the  shadow 

Where  there  is  no  order,  and  where  its  shining  is  like 
blackness. 

fl^p^^'r^^^  fTi^f  *  ""'^^  ^  *^^«  ^'^^i^^t  religion  was 
that  God  .hould  be  worshipped  through  sacrifices  and 
burnt  offerings.  And  what  is  exceedingly  interesting 
and  seems  happily  in  advance  of  the  general  characte^ 
of  their  rehgion  these  ancients  set  a  high  value  on  the 
fruits  of  personal  piety.  The  necessity  of  hohness  of  hfe 
nist  m  God,  truth,  integrity,  charity,  hospitality,  since- 
rity were  everywhere  commended  and  insisted  on 

Here  I  might  introduce  a  very  singular  and  interesting 
character  as  an  illustration  of  the  rehgion  of  these  very 
times.  I  refer  to  Melchizedec.  King  of  Salem,  king  of 
peace  priest  of  the  Most  High  God,  to  whom  Abraham 
pa  d  ti  hes.  He  was  probably  a  Canaanitish  prince 
of  the  olden  the  longer-lived  generation,  who  maintained 
the  knowledge  and  worship  of  God,  which  did  not  seem 
up  to  this  time  so  generally  lost  in  Canaan  as  in  the  land 

21 


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THE  FOOT-PRINTS  OP  SATAN. 


from  which  Abraham  came.  Here  we  are  able  to  trace 
a  connecting  hnk  between  the  religion  of  Abraham  and 
that  of  Noah  and  Enoch,  i.  e.,  to  trace  the  true  religion 
through  that  dark  period  which  intervened  between  the 
primitive  religion  of  the  world  and  the  reformation  und^r 
Abraham — through  the  "  dark  ages  "  of  the  old  world. 

We  have,  as  seen  in  this  brief  compendium  of  the  an- 
cient faith,  not  only  the  outlines  of  the  revealed  religion, 
both  in  its  present  expanded,  and  yet  expanding  condi- 
tion, bijt  we  have  before  us  the  system  of  faith  and  prac- 
tice, which,  by  the  perversion  of  sin  and  the  devices  of 
Satan,  gave  rise  to  all  the  corrupt  schemes  of  idolatry 
which  cursed  the  ancient  world,  and  which,  with 'modi- 
fications to  suit  the  times,  have  cursed  the  world  to  the 
present  day.  The  device  of  the  Devil  has  been  not  to 
suppress  or  in  any  way  to  discourage  man's  religious 
instinct,  but  rather  to  cherish  it.  He  would  have  all  men 
very  religious,  and  fain  would  he  have  them  fancy  they 
are  practicing  the  religion  prescribed  by  God,  while  at 
the  same  time,  by  a  wicked  perversion,  he  would  make 
religion  the  sorriest  counterfeit  of  what  God  requires. 

The  leading  false  rehgions  which  have  from  time  im- 
memorial held  the  greater  portion  of  the  inhabitants  of 
the  earth  in  social  and  civil,  as  well  as  in  moral  and 
spiritual  bondage,  are  Sabianism,  Magianism,  Brahmin- 
ism,  Buddhism,  Mohammedanism  and  the  Papacy.  It 
will  not  be  necessary  that  we  attempt  to  trace  in  order 
each  one  of  these  impure  streams  up  to  the  particular 
fountain  of  which  it  is  the  corrupt  issue.  It  is  enough 
that  we  mark  the  perversion  and  duly  note  the  stupen- 
dous mischief  which  the  great  Adversary  of  man  and 
God  has  perpetrated  by  the  wholesale  monopoly  of  reU- 
gion  to  his  vile  purposes.  In  all  his  monopolies  of 
wealth,  learning,  influence,  custom,  habit,  fashion,  amuse- 
ments, he  only  entered  the  outer  courts  of  humanity, 


THE  RELIGION  OP  THE  ASSYWANS.  323 

he  intrades  into  th??  P^rogatiyes.    But  here 

fronrw"  bh  s  rorrrT'^."'''^  ^°"''  "■"»  <-•»- 

As  man    ;„   I.-  "'"'^''  ""terests  with  his  God 

gives  him  a  stone.    H  he  ask  a  L^        '^  °^  ""^  ^" 
pent,  and  a  scorpion  for  an  egg     ""■  "'  ^'^^  ^  "  »»■ 

Pians  from  Xch  Tbral«  ""'  """  '''"'g*™  "'  *!>«  Assy- 
came  out  from  Ur  of  ^^0"^?""^  ""■""  ""^^^ 
of  antiquity  this  reUgioa  was^f^'  ^  "  ""'"'^  P^^'^ 
science  of  the  ChalS"  aid  t.,«  Tf  "^'^  ^^  ""« 

Prom  Asia  it  pastd  i^  ol„ 'prr^fro    :.^'^"^'' ' 
Grecians,  "  who  prooaaaM  ?f  f     n  ..    "  "'™™  *»  ">« 
of  the  world  "    We^!f  j!        *"  '^.  *«  ^^t*""  "^'ions 

the  hnndrfds  of  m^o^  SXe  w"""'  °'  ^  ■»""»-' 
and  long  centuries  Ta™  ^t  hrrZ^" '?  "'"^ 

death  over  aU  ^^  vaT  tK-^  Sf "i:  ^"^ 

-f  ^iM"™  T*'"^  ""^  "^"Sious  instincts  of  a  people 

When  Zttch  pTr'  r'™'  °'''  '""^  *  P«°Pl« 
■aans  arch  Foe  then  becomes  the  high  priest  at 


324 


THE  POOT-PRINTS  OF  SATAN. 


the  altar,  he  finds  himself  at  the  helm  of  humau  affairs, 
and  he  may  guide  them  as  he  will.  From  no  other  point 
may  he  exercise  so  supreme  a  control.  In  order  the 
more  effectively  to  secure  such  a  control,  our  Enemy's 
policy  is  to  make  a  false  religion,  not  only  as  nearly  like 
the  true  religion  as  possible,  but  he  is  careful  to  have  it 
founded  on  the  same  great  original  truths.  Hence  we 
find  the  rehgion  of  Babel — of  Babylon — of  the  great  Baby- 
lonish Empire — founded  on  the  great  truths  of  revelation. 
Sabius,  after  whom  the  system  is  supposed  to  be  named, 
was  the  son  of  Seth.  They  were  wont  to  appeal  for 
authority  to  the  sacred  books  of  Adam,  Seth  and  Enoch. 
The  truth  doubtless  is,  the  compilers  of  that  ancient 
religious  code  had  before  them  the  great  truths  of  reve- 
lation,, as  they  had  been  made  known  to  Adam,  Seth, 
Enoch,  and  the  holy  men  who  lived  before  the  Flood,  and 
transmitted  through  Noah  to  succeeding  generations. 
The  acknowledgment  of  the  one  supreme  God,  Creator 
of  the  heavens  and  the  earth,  the  Preserver,  the  Benefactor 
and  the  Controller  of  all  things ;  the  concession  that  man 
is  a  sinner,  and  can  never,  without  the  interposition  of 
another,  restore  himself  to  the  favor  of  an  offended  God, 
were,  theoretically,  items  of  belief.  Hence  the  prayers, 
the  worship  and  the  offerings  which  they  made  to  God. 
Yet  while  they  were  matters  of  creed,  not  one  of  these 
truths  was  left  unperverted,  and  hence  they  became  null 
and  void.  So  effectually  perverted  were  they  for  all 
practical  purposes,  as  to  become  the  sheerest  falsehoods. 
Though  they  knew  God,  they  worshipped  him  not  as 
God,  but  became  vain  in  their  imaginations  and  their 
foohsh  heart  was  darkened.  Professing  themselves  to  be 
wise — for  they  had  all  the  boasted  wisdom  of  the 
Chaldeans  to  guide  them  —  they  became  fools  and 
changed  the  glory  of  the  incorruptible  God  into  an  image. 


THE  ORIGIN  OP  IMAGE  WORSHIP.  325 

The  whole  is  expressed  in  a  word   « fT,o^  «i, 

truth  of  God  into  a  lie."  '        ^  ''^^''^^^  *^® 

First  they  worshipped  the  heavenly  bodifl«    fl.. 
moon,  and  stars  aa  ihL  ^„  *    ,.^J   oocues,  the  sun, 

the  o;e  suZme  G^   "^  '  "t"'^  ^Presentotives  of 

by  their  rising. JZLll^^T.^T^y^'^'''''- 
from  their  sight  thev  S/         .     .*^  '™^  removed 

might  wor4  i^K'n  rZht  ri  T"  I'''"'  ""^^ 
images  they  'gave  the  ZT.  :  t  t'te  ^mS  'IT 

meet,  in 'raS  ^^L"  .^^If  ^  r^"^" 
systems  of  Paganism,  sach  dXs  as  Salrf  ^ul'" 
ApoUo  Mercury.  Venus  and  Diana.  Indastufn^  ' 
hve  system  of  idolatry  extended  it^lT^  ^  P"""' 
in.the  Chaldean  Emp4.   'Sedo^eflifb:!" 

f>l-^'^7rd:tn^^£iS 

piouucea.      An  important  modifieahnn  «#  „u-  i. 

fch  rs-r^- -:« tv.^: 

either.)  is  accounted  for  from  t    f"t  Zf  W.*^-" 
derived  from  the  same  general  so^'Aiteyt^t 


P1F 


326 


THE  POOT-PRINTS  OP  SATAN. 


common  was  a  matter  of  divine  revelation.  It  had  been 
revealed  to  the  Patriarchs.  And  what  would  seem  to  vin- 
dicate theu:  Uneage  from  the  true  religion  as  revealed  to 
the  earUer  Patriarchs  and  renewed  and  enlarged  in  the 
Abrahamic  dispensation,  is  the  fact  alluded  to  by  Gibbon, 
that  a  "  sUght  infusion  of  the  gospel  transformed  the  last 
remnant  of  these  polytheists  into  the  Christians  of  St. 
John."  Even  Christianity  in  its  best  estate  is  but  a 
return  to,  and  a  new,  and  a  vastly  enlarged  and  perfected 
edition  of  the  reUgion  vouchsafed  to  the  Patriarchs. 

But  in  taking  the  above  view  of  the  origin  of  this  first 
great  system  of  idolatry— for  the  religion  of  the  ancient 
Babylonians  deserves  no  other  name — we  would  not  be 
understood  as  holding  that  the  heaven-inspired  religion 
of  Noah  and  Abraham  is  responsible  for  this  and  all  the 
false  religions  that  have  since  cursed  the  world.  "An 
enemy  hath  done  this."  Did  not  the  great  husbandman 
sow  good  seed  in  his  field  ?  Whence  then  the  tares  ?  A 
pure  religion  is  the  grand  agency  by  which  God  controls 
the  mind  of  man.  The  Enemy  here  steps  in,  and  by  a 
gross  perversion  of  this  same  reUgion  makes  it  the 
mightiest  agency  by  which  to  corrupt  and  hold  in  spirit- 
ual bondage  the  willing  dupes  of  error. 

Gladly  would  we  know  more  of  this  ancient  rehgion — 
how  men  in  those  remote  ages  of  antiquity,  who,  Uke  the 
men  in  every  succeeding  generation,  loved  not  to  retain 
God  m  their  thoughts,  gradually  swerved  from  the  sim- 
plicity of  the  truth,  perverting  one  truth  after  another, 
till  they  changed  the  truth  of  God  into  a  he.  Countless 
millions  were  for  ages  its  ignorant  votaries.  "  Professing 
themselves  to  be  wise,"  in  this  most  essential  concern 
"  became  fools."  In  its  sad  perversion,  what  was  once  a 
true  religion  became  but  a  corrupt  and  a  corrupting 
superstition,  and  in  practice  but  the  sheerest  idolatry. 
But  for  its  error  we  might  admire  its  antiquity.    It  was 


THE  MOTHER  OF  IDOLATRY.  327 

greatTabtr'^ir  °^"°'^'"  ^"-eh-the  reUgion  of 

o^f  the  kS"  A  sii^i  r:  '"'7'"^  "^  "'^  --^^ 

f  i.1-  .         -a-ssayna,  and  its  temples  were  tho  r«ar^i4 

hX*'   f'"''^."*''  ^''^''^ly  retrace  the  steps  of  time 

^«p.e.  th.-sg^.t  «^rht,^^4^rotr 

teemuig  „,u>ons  of  the  great  East.  And  the  re»Xot^ 
toe  can  never  tell  the  amount  of  ignorance  ZZlf. 
faon  of  fraud  and  despotism,  of  cruelty  and  degra^S 

race  Uirough  his  one  system  of  false  reUgion.  No  form 
of  false  rehgion  has  ever  held  in  bondace  so  ™!2 
mdl.ons  of  immortal  beings.  None  eve" s^flad  della- 
t.on  and  spmtual  death  over  regions  so  extend™  ortr 

Sbfa*"—  l""""    ^°'  "«  "-'  bear  in  Z!]^i 
to  Sabiamsm  is  the  mother  of  idolatry-the  original  of  a 

uTJT  ""^'P  """"'  -  -modelled  31  to 

^I'^rrth^a^Jsr---^--''^ 

This  we  may  regard  as  a  ^formation  of  SabianSmrana 


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THE  FOOT-PRINTS    OP  BkTLS. 


perliaps  bore  tho  same  relation  to  the  Abrahamio  dispen- 
sation that  Sabianism  did  to  the  Patriarchal.  It  was  a 
specious  advance  in  error  to  correspond  with  the  advance 
of  truth — the  second  grand  device  of  Satan  to  deceive 
the  nations — to  monopolize  the  religious  sentiment — to 
control  men  through  their  religious  instincts.  When  they 
ask  an  egg  again  he  gives  them  a  scorpion. 

Magianism  is  remarkable  among  false  religions  for  the 
amount  of  truth  it  embodied.  It  was  a  close  approxi- 
mation to  the  religion  of  the  Jews.  This,  however  is 
especially  true  only  as  we  find  it  reformed  by  the  cele- 
brated Zoroaster.  Indeed  this  famous  priest  and  philo- 
sopher and  reformer  is  believed  to  have  been  a  Jew. 
He  is  said  to  have  been,  in  early  life,  in  the  service  of  one 
of  the  prophets  (Daniel  as  is  generally  supposed)  where 
he  became  thoroughly  conversant  with  the  Jewish 
Scriptures,  and  acquainted  with  the  faith  and  worship, 
the  liturgy  and  ceremonial  of  that  people.  Hence  the 
large  accessions  received  from  that  source. 

But  let  us  see  first  what  we  can  find  of  the  origiiial 
system  as  it  existed  from  Abraham  to  Moses,  and  thence 
onward  to  its  reformation  .  iear  the  close  of  the  captivity 
of  Israel  in  Babylon.  Wo  have  scant  material  for  such 
researches — little  but  the  few  allusions  in  the  Old  Testa- 
ment— a  few  glimpses  of  light  amidst  the  darkness  of  the 
tombs,  yet  enough  to  warrant  the  belief  that  this  form  of 
false  religion  was  the  exa(  t  counterfeit  of  the  religion  of 
the  long  period  indicated.  The  progress  of  revelation 
and  of  civilization  had  cast  so  much  light  over  the  nations 
of  Western  Asia,  where  flourished  the  first  great  empires 
and  over  which  had  prevailed  the  first  great  system  of 
idolatry,  that  this  ancient  idolatry  had  become  too  gross 
longer  to  hold  the  mind  of  the  people  in  bondage.  And 
hence  the  modification  which  was  now  invented.  It 
must  have  be  the  counterfeit,  not,  as  before,  of  Job  and 


^«  . 


ICAaiANISM  AND  ZOROASTER. 


32i; 


the  older  Patriarchs,  but  of  Abrahaiu  and  his  descend- 
ants.    The  call  of  Abraham  and  the  covenant  made  with 
that  Patriarch,  and   the  new  revelations  of  tho  divine 
character  now  made,  placed  the  true  religion  on  a  higher 
level  than  ever  before,  and  presented  the  character  of  God 
in  a  lig^it  never  before  known.     The  unity  and  spiritual- 
ity  of  God  were  now  especially  vindicated  in  opposition 
to  the  polytheism    and    materiality  of    God  which  had 
characterized  the  religions  of    preceding  ages.     Conse- 
quently    we    find  the    new  vamped  form   of    idolatry 
acknowledging  one  supreme  God,  eternal,  self  existent, 
•the   creator   and  governor   of    all    things.     And  they 
admitted  the  resurrection  of  the  body,  a  future  judgment, 
and  future  rewards  and  punishment.     And  they  held  in 
great  abhorrence  the  worship  of  images.     The  doctrine  of 
the  fall  of  man  and  the  apostasy  of  angels,  nnd  the 

Y^flr  TT  °  '^°'  f"'^'  "*  ^'''^  '"^  «^^«^3^.  admitted. 
Yetthbugh  they  knew  God.  they  worshipped  him  not  as 
God.  and  were,  in  the  practical  bearings  of  their  religion 
scarcely  less  vain  in  their  imaginations  than  the  idola- 
trous nations  whose  religion  they  professed  to  reform. 
They  worshipped  not  God  as  a  spirit,  nor  as  a  pure  and 
holy  being,  but  paid  divine  honors  to  fire,  the  light,  and 
the  sun,  fancying,  as  they  did,  that  these  were  the  best 
representatives  of  the  deity  and  hence  the  most  suitable 
objects  of  worship.  This  was  the  rehgion  of  the  ancient 
Medes  and  Persians,  which  prevailed  for  centuries  among 
the  people  of  those  extensive  regions,  and  which  still 
exists  under  the  name  of  Fire  Worship,  among  a  res- 
pectable  remnant  in  Persia  and  India  to  this  day?* 

-A  fra^ent  of  the  Zoroastrian  oracles  d^larea  of  God  that  «  he  the 
jBt  IS  mdestructible.  eternal,  unbegotten.  indivisible    ^simlar     ^e 

wise    he  18  the  fether  of  equity  and  justice,  self-taught,  physical  and 
perfect,  and  wise.  ««id  the  only  inventor  of  the  sacred  philosophy 


''"'Si 


330 


THE  FOOT-PRINTS  OF  SATAN. 


The  p^reat  oharaoteri.stio  of  thi8  religion  was  iho  cele- 
brated "  two  principles,"  for  a  belief  of    which   the  fire- 
worshippers  are  so  well  known.     They  boneved  that  from 
eternity  there  existed  two  beings,  Ormuzd  and  Ahriman, 
which  they  denominated  principles  of  the  universe.    Or- 
muzd is  pure,  eternal  light,  the  original  source  of  all  per- 
fection.    Ahriman,  too,  they  say,  was  originally  of  the 
light,  but  because  ho  envied  the  light  of  Ormuzd,  he  ob- 
scured his  own,  became  the  enemy  of  Ormuzd  and  the 
father  of  evil,  and  of  all  wicked  beings  who  are  confede- 
rate with  him  in  a  constant  warfare  with  the  good.    To 
Ormuzd  they  attributed  the  creation  of  all  good  beings, 
and  to  Ahriman  the  creation  of  evil  beings.     The  one 
class  are  the  servants  of  the  wicked  god,  and  the  other  of 
the  good  god.     One  is  the  author  of  all  evil,  the  otl^er  of 
all  good.     The  good  dwell  with  Ormuzd  in  light,  the 
other  with  Ahriman  in  darkness.    And  so  after  death  the 
good  go  to  dwell  forever  in  a  world  of  light  with  Ormuzd, 
and  the  wicked  are  consigned  over  to  Ahriman  to  dwell 
forever  with  him  in  a  world  of  darkness.    Who  does  not 
hero  discern  the  true  idea  of  God  and  the  Devil  ?    The 
pride  and  envy  of  the  evil  god  and  the  perpetual  warfare 
kept  up  between  the  two,  and  the  final  victory  which 
they  believed  the  good  should  achieve  over  the  evil,  leave 
no  doubt  whence  they  derived  their  idea  of  the  two  prin- 
ciples which  held  so  prominent  a  place  in  their  religion. 
But  there  seems  to  have  been  at  least  a  sect  among 
them,  even  before  the  reformation  by  the  great  Zoroaster, 
who  came  yet  nearer  to  the  truth.    They  held  that  the 
good  God  only  was  eternal,  and  that  the  other  was  creat- 
ed.   But  they,  however,  agree  that  there  will  be  a  con- 
tinual conflict  between  the  two  till  the  end  of  the  world, 
when  the  good  god    shall  overcome  the  evil  god,  and 
henceforth  each  shall  have  his  own  appropriate  world; 
the  good  god  his  world  of  light,  with  all  good  men  and 


ANCIENT  FIRE-WORBHIP.  831 

fo^d'^f"^  1 '''""'™'  8"^« '  ^^  ">«  «^  sod  have  his 
b^t^th  ,  r*"'  :",''»" 'rioked  bei-gs.  And  light 
bemg  the  truest  aymbol  of  good,  „nd  darlmess  of  evil, 
they  worshipped  the  good  god  through  the  Jire  as  being 
the  cause  of  hght,  and  especiaUy  did  they  worship  Z 
sun  M  bemg  m  heir  opinion  the  most  perfect  and  caus- 

Zol'^d     '^.*?,'  '?"•    "^-^  """  »'"  8°"  'W  always 

alta™''t„^^^'""  ^r,^  "*'*''  »'»'''«»'  "<"  '«"Ples  nor 
a  tars  to  their  gods,  but  offered  their  sacrifices  and  paid 
their  adorations  in  the  open  air,  and  generally  on  ^e 

theEl^H^""  .''?«\P''"'™-    T""-'   their'fLest 

the  East  they  worshipped  the  rising  sun.    An  undoubted 

reference  IS  made  to  this  ancient  worship,  this  b,S  of 

wiT'  1    p"''-  r-  ^®-    ^"""-e  the  "abominations  " 

mi  ted  m  the  holy  temple,  was  the  one  to  which  we  refer : 

He  brought  me  to  the  inner  court  of  the  Lord's 

house,  and,  behold,  at  the  door  of  the  temple  of  the 

a^dtwen?""  *■•«,?"? '"•"^^  altar,  were  abou  fiv^ 
and  twenty  men  w,th  their  backs  toward  the  temple  of 

1  ^  '.""1  """  '*°«'  '°™^'^«  «>«  East,  and  they 
worshipped  «ie  sun  toward  the  East"  That  is,  they 
had  turned  their  backs  on  the  true  worship  of  6^Z 
had  gone  over  to  that  of  the  Magians,  the  ^Ugion  of  the 
peopk  about  them.  The  holy  of  holies,  in  whfch  was  Z 
Shebnaho   the  divine  presence,  being  on  the  west  end 

wit  *^?  '  ^  """""""  '°  ''"^'^P  G"-!.  t^d  their 
faces  to  the  west  or  toward  the  holy  place.      These 

twenty-five  men,  by  turning  their  faces  towards  (he  rising 

sun  turned  their  backs  upon  the  altar  of  God,  showing 

they  worshipped,  not  the  God  of  Israel,  but  the  God  of 

the  Magians.    And  not  unhkely  the  "horses  that  the 

lungs  of  Judah  had  given  to  the  sun,"  but  which  Josiah 


332 


THE  FOOT-PRINTS  OF  SATAN. 


a 


gX»*     -I  i  M 

HB 

pll^'l'.  1 

m'f     '!' '  F 

ii  r  E. 

when  he  cleaned  the  temple  of  abominations,  took  away, 
and  the  "  chariots  of  the  sun  which  he  burnt  with  fire," 
belonged  to  the  same  species  of  worship.  And  possiblj 
another  feature  of  the  same  idolatrous  worship  was  al- 
luded to  when  the  Prophet  saw  again  what  the  "  ancients 
of  the  house  of  Israel  did  in  the  dark."  He  saw  seventy 
men  standing  in  a  secluded  part  of  the  temple,  every  man 
holding  in  his  hand  a  censer,  and  a  thick  cloud  of  incense 
went  up. 

From  the  investigations  of  Hammer,  who  is  good  au- 
thority on  a  subject  of  this  kind,  it  would  appear  that 
Magianism,  or  the  pure  fire-worship,  was  even  prior  to 
Sabianism,  which  we  have  supposed  to  be  the  earliest 
perversion  of  religion  or  form  of  idolatry.  He  speaks  of 
the  "  pure  fire-worship  as  the  oldest  religion  of  the 
Bactro-Medean  race,"  and  that  from  this  the  worship  of 
the  heavenly  bodies,  or  Sabianism,  sprung.  On  this  sup- 
position Sabianism  was  the  corruption  of  the  ancient 
and  the  less  degenerate  form  of  idolatry,  and  the  Magian- 
ism of  the  Medes  and  Persians  of  a  later  date  was  a  re- 
form in  relation  to  Sabianism,  though  but  a  return  to  the 
primitive  form  and  doctrines  of  ancient  Magianism. 

The  period  we  have  assigned  to  this  form  of  idolatry  is 
a  long  one.  Through  this  period  we  may  trace  a  very 
signal  advance  of  the  true  religion.  It  extended  from 
Abraham  to 'Moses  and  onward  through  the  reforms  in 
the  days  of  Samuel  and  David,  Josiah  and  Hezekiah,  em- 
bracing the  glowing  visions  of  Messiah's  coming  reign 
which  Isaiah  saw,  and  yet  onward  to  the  no  less  evangeli- 
cal teachings  of  Daniel  and  Malachi.  During  this  period 
of  more  then  .fifteen  hundred  years,  religion  had  ad- 
vanced from  the  confused  and  fragmentary  state  in  which 
Abraham  found  it  into  the  organized  and  advanced  con- 
dition into  which  Moses  brought  it,  and  into  the  yet 
more  perfect  state  in  which  David  and  Daniel  left  it. 


ANOTHER  COUNTERFEIT.  333 

The  rude  tabernacle  had  grown  info  ii.^  „7    • 

psalms  of  S  ?X  wv  ^"T^  ''"'"=^'  *»  *« 

Church  had  been  organized  S,  ^  Testament.  A 
worship  had  been  iSS  1  ""f^  "'  '*™'  P"''"" 
been  appointed     At  the  !?'  "■'^,l'«8»>»'-priesthood  had 

as  oomrared':^th  tta^^'^Lt r^°t  'f  ^•"' "'"' 
the  beginning  of  tlifinav,-^^  im  ^  development  at 

thesun^ndlh^'Itn'Tdttrf^^^^^^^^  ^^^^^^^ 
a  crown  of  twelve  stars."  '  ^""^  "^^^  ^^'^^^^ 

If  our  theory  be  true  we  are  now  again  to  In.t  f 
new  counterfeit  which  shall  be  so  fir T    ^  ^"""^  * 

last  of  the  Enemy's  devices  ihJVl  f  ^''^""^  °^  *^® 
the  progress  madeLtrtlr^^^^^^^^^  ^^^ 

ing  advance  in  the  counted  bfcl'e  needfd^'^t 
on  account  of  the  clearer  views  and7]l  ""^^ 

teachings  of  Isaiah,  DanieUnd  thett  ^ZXtT 
account  of  the  impressive  lesson  which  had  h^   ' .      T. 

an  effectual  cu™  o^  iZ  J.         """S^'^"-  "^ous.  was 

oucn  a  tnorough  conviction  of  the  sin  nf  ,'^«i„i  i 

^prompt  and  decided  an  abstinent  romi'ttt^'p'^ 

uaj  in  me  Church,  Satan  is  sure  to  turn  reformer. 


334 


THE  FOOT-PBIKTS  OF  SATAN. 


Hence  the  change  which  now  came  over  the  spirit,  or 
rather  o-^er  the  form  of  the  prevailing  system  of  idolatry. 
And  hence  the  reformatory  measures  of  the  great 
Zoroaster.  He  was  to  Magianism  what  Moses  was  to  the 
true  religion.  The  reformation  now  called  for  was  to 
meet  the  marked  advance  of  religion  as  now  illustrated  in 
Judaism,  inaugurated  by  Moses,  and  matured  by  a  long 
succession  of  holy  men  and  Prophets  down  to  the  capti- 
vity. 

Magianism,  as  reformed  by  Zoroaster,  met  this  demand 
and  furnished  another  striking  example  how  errorists  are 
"  ever  learning,  but  never  able  to  come  to  a  knowledge 
of  the  truth."  The  wisdom  of  the  world  in  its  best  type, 
philosophy  in  its  profoundest  researches,  does  but  approxi- 
mate— does  but  feel  after  the  truth,  as  revealed  in  Christ. 
It  may  aim  at,  but  can  never  reach  the  mark  or  secure  the 
prize.  Magianism,  as  reformed  by  Zoroaster,  is  perhaps 
the  nearest  approximation  ever  made  by  any  false  reli- 
gion to  the  truth.  Yet  it  is  no  nearer  to  the  truth  than 
a  close  counterfeit  is  to  a  genuine  coin. 

A  brief  examination  of  this  specious  counterfeit,  in  its 
reformed  costume,  will  justify  such  an  opinion/ 

The  celebrated  Zoroaster,  as  I  have  said,  is  believed  to 
have  been  contemporary  with  Daniel  during  his  sojourn 
in  Babylon,  and  conversant  with  the  Prophets  and  reli- 
gious teachers  of  that  period.  And  it  is  asserted  that  he 
was  for  some  years  nearly  associated  with  one  of  the 
Prophets — probably  Daniel.  Hence  he  had  ample  op- 
portunities to  become  acquainted  with  the  Jewish  scrip- 
tures and  the  Jewish  religion.  And  here  no  doubt  he 
conceived  the  idea  of  remodelling  the  religion  of  the 
Persians  so  as  to  adapt  it  the  better  to  the  increased 
light  which  the  revelation  had  shed  on  the  world  through 
the  people  who  worshipped  the  God  of  Zion.  Indeed,  he 
drew  so  largely  on  the  sacred  scriptures,  and  conformed 


DANIEL  ADD  HIS  TIMES. 


335 


ments  of  teoft  somehmes  seem  to  predominate  over  the 
tofefol       "  °'  ""^  '"''  '^'^'"  ""^  ''^  P"'-o'd 

The  chief  and  most  important  reformation  which  he 
m^e  was  in  rospeet  to  its  first  principle,  that  God  is  one 
and  supreme  and  eternal,  self-eristent  md  inZeidZ 
who  created  both  light  and  darkness,  out  of  which  he 

Tcf  whlh  wT,  ''T  '■  """  '"^'^  -«  -  ^  ''"^  o   con! 
fliot  which  will  continue  to  the  end  of  the  world    that 

then  there  shall  be  a  resurrection  and  a  gene  aTSment 

darln»=«  .„j  ™  consigned  to  a  place  of  everlastins 
dariness  and  punishment,  and  the  angel  of  h>rht  with 
his  disciples,  introduced  into  a  stat!  of  ettLing 
hgU  and  happiness,  after  which  light  and  darkrss  A^ 
no  more  interfere  with  each  other  '^^'^^^  shaU 

The  remodelling  and  reforming  the  then  existing  svst«m 
of  idolaty  under  Zoroaster,  was  a  policy    urged '^ZS 
our  great  adversaiy  by  the  remarkab  Jevenl  of  fte 
hme.    Zoroaster  is  beUeved  to  have  lived  in  the  evented 
times  of  Daniel,  and  to  have  known  of  his  holXlI^ 
smg^lar  wisdom  and  convincing  testimony  ^   LtuS. 
of  Nebuchadnezzar  and  his  visi,  ns  and  dreams   and  T. 
interpretatos  thereof,  of  Daniel's  three  Ss  and  tt 
overwhelming    conviction  die  fiery  trial   of  t W  f  ^t 
must  have  produced,  and  of  Cyrus  and  the  cXieu^t 
part  he  acted  m  the  great  passing  drama  as  tie  choZ 
instrument  in  the  hands  of  the  great  King.  ° 

The  dightest  allusion  to  the  events  of  those  times 
would  seem  enough  to  produce  the  profoundest  con^f 
faon  that  he  hand  of  God-yea  the  spirit  of  God-was  M 
^rk  mightily  among  the  hundred  and  twenty-sevcn  prt 
vmces  of  Babylon,  as  also  in  Medea  and  Persia,  andl 


336 


THE    FOOT-PBINTS  OF  SATAN. 


all  the  principal  nations  of  Asia.  The  design  of  the  ex- 
traordinary providential  movements,  God  informs  us, 
was  twofold.  Ist,  the  deliverance  of  Israel,  and  2d,  the 
making  known  his  supreme  power  and  Godhead  among 
all  the  nations  of  the  earth :  "  For  the  sake  of  Jacob  my 
servant,  and  Israel  mine  elect.  And  that  they  may  know 
from  the  rising  of  the  sun,  and  from  the  tuest,  that  there  is 
none  beside  me." 

Of  the  widespread  and  profound  impressions  produced 
on  those  people  and  nations  wo  may  receive  as  a  satis- 
factory index  the  public  confessions  and  declarations  of 
the  proud  and  idolatrous  Nebuchadnezzar  and  of  King 
Darius,  "  Of  a  truth  it  is  that  your  God  is  the  God  of 
gods  and  A  Lord  of  kings,  and  a  revealer  of  secrets." 
And  King  Darius  wrote  unto  all  people,  nations  and 
languages  that  in  every  dominion  of  my  kingdom,  "  men 
tremble  and  fear  before  the  God  of  Daniel,  for  he  is  the 
living  God  and  his  kingdom  that  which  shall  not  be 
destroyed." 

It  was  under  the  pressure  of  such  a  state  of  things 
that  he  who  now  saw  his  craft  in  serious  danger  set  him- 
self to  remodel  and  reform  the  prevailing  system  of 
idolatry  and  suit  it  to  the  times.  Hence  Zoroaster  and 
the  Zendavesta.  Never  perhaps  did  man's  Arch  Enemy 
make  larger  concessions  to  the  true  and  the  right  and 
draw  more  liberally  from  the  great  fountain  of  aU  truth. 
Such  homage  was  he  constrained  to  pay  to  the  onward 
march  of  truth  and  righteousness. 


i'.:-iigr'" 


xy. 


FALSE  ItELIGIONS.-(0oNTiNUED.l 


HI8T0RI0  BELIGI0N-PE0GRE8SI7E  BETELAHON-QOD  EB- 
mi^  HmSEI^  AS  THE  WOBLD  CAN  BEAR^?!^^"^ 
THE    TRUE    RELIGION    m   ATT    wato™  ^-BAOES  OF 

'^^'i^i/'N  EOB  MAN— TORESTRIOTED. 

01  tne  trae,  both  to  admire  and  lament.  We  meet  in 
ttem  not  so  much  absolute  falsehood,  as  truai  pe^^'t^ 
mZT^T^'?'^'^  °'»'^'»  int«este1I   ^ 

s^«n„«^  B^  !™  """^  "■  *'""<'■'  ««^  is  generally 
Smte  wv?*  ""i"-""'^  ««W™.  it  is  not  easy  to 
detormme  which  recognizes  the  least  of  God     NeithS 

stiaot  oemg  of  God.  Such  a  monstrosity  falls  only  within 


MP  i 


'  'I! 


'■ll 


338 


THE  FOOT-FBINTS  OF  SATAN 


the  daxk  domains  of  Atheism.  Beason  and  conscience 
never  said  "  there  is  no  God."  This  is  •  the  language 
only  of  the  perverted  heart.  God  has  stamped  his 
image  on  all  his  works.  The  heavens  declare  the  being 
and  agency  of  God.  The  succession  of  day  and  night 
proclaims  it — everything  shadows  forth  an  all-pervading 
deity. 

False  religions  have  formed  a  crafty  compromise  be- 
tween the  conflicting  elements  of  man.  They  yield  to 
Beason  who  knows  there  is  a  God,  and  to  Conscience  who 
feels  it,  the  abstract  fact  of  the  divine  existence,  but  grant 
to  the  heart,  which  has  no  complacency  in  the  character 
of  the  Gx'd  of  reason  and  conscience,  the  prerogative  of 
clothing  this  being  with  attributes  congenial  with  its  own 
corrupt  nature.  Hence  the  invention  of  other  gods  and 
the  imputing  to  the  true  God  a  fictitious  character. 
And  hence  the  fabrication  of  corresponding  systems  of 
religion.  Yet,  in  the  compromise,  the  heart,  de  facto, 
has  the  advantage.  For  while  it  theoretically  acknow- 
ledges the  being  of  one  supreme  God  by  adding  at  the 
same  time  a  multitude  of  lesser  deities  to  which  it  pays 
its  supreme  homage,  it  practically  loses  sight  of  both  the 
being  and  authority  of  the  true  God. 

Here  is  the  dark  triumph  of  sin.  It  has  placed  a 
black  and. impenetrable  cloud  between  the  effulgence  of 
the  eternal  throne  and  this  lower  world.  It  has  covered 
the  earth  with  darkness — done  its  utmost  to  shut  out 
God  from  the  world,  and  to  usurp  his  dominion  over 
this  part  of  his  empire.  It  has  changed  the  incorruptible 
God  into  an  image  made  like  to  corruptible  man,  and  to 
birds  and  four-footed  beasts  and  creeping  things. 

In  order  to  take  a  just  view  of  the  great  systems  of 
false  religions  which  have  obtained  in  tlio  world  it  will  be 
necessary  io  premise  the  following  things : 

I.  God  reveals  himself  to  the  worid  as  the  world  can 


l>ear  a  or  u, prepared  to  receive  it.    And  we  mnirf  ->»  „ 
sequence  look  for  something  corresp^^;  Z^iZl 
Tanons  systems  of  religion  which  ht^f  l^^^i! 

source ^Ci^e^Heturr'"!,™'^''''''  '^^^-^^  » 
the  people  itXhteL^'lT^'^*  '°  **  """^'^°°  »' 
the  half  blind  Zs^'bumH*"™"  '™°"f'  °*  ™''»'^<' 
of  clear  and  ZT^^tTX  """T'^  ^^  *^«  "'» 
fog,Uttle  com?a:er^S.'thfm  wh^r^lt  r^'""^ 

o  Bttcieu  page.    And  so  we  may  sav  of  f  h«  n»i« 
vation  of  every  Christian  virtue  an  A?  i?      ^-    ^" 

It  will,  therefore,  correct  our  views  and  moderate  our 

mo°rZ't„^..  e^'-eraphj.  physical,  poUtical  and 
mora^  and  to  the  enture  condition  of  the  people  as  to 
knowledge  mental  improvement  and  oiviliza^on     Tr^ 

of tTet^^irrr^  ?«  "  »-  "««  »  -^C 

ui  tne  world,  might  have  been  essentially  true  in  ar. 


340 


THE    FOOT-PRINTS  OF  SATAN. 


the  tempoiuvy  -r.ui:  of  the  ebullitions,  the  confusions 
and  apr  aront  .li.  .  lutions  which  usuaUy  precede  the  in- 
troduction and  establishment  of  a  new  and  better  order 
of  things,  than  as  real  retrogressions.  It  is  the  "  shak- 
ing "  of  those  things  which  shall  be  "  removed."  To 
us,  who  reckon  time  by  mnntbT  <^nd  years,  centurka  ap- 
pear  a  long  preparatory  season.  But  He  who  inhabits 
eternity,  and  plans  for  infinite  duration,  feels  no  such 
restramts.  With  him  a  thousand  years  are  as  one 
day. 

The  true  religion,  like  Christian  civilization,  is  pro- 
gresstve,  and  we  can  trace  its  onward  anrZ  upward  pro- 
gress through  all  its  continuous  chp^nels— Ethiopian 
Egyptian,  Phoenician,  Babylonian  and  Indian,  to  the 
Greek  r^nd  Eoman,  and  onward  to  the  present  highly- 
civUizad  nation.,  and  we  discover  that  Providence  has 
used  eich  of  these  nations  as  far  as  in  then-  times 
and  circumstances  they  could  be  used,  to  advance  the 
great  work  of  man's  moral  renovation,  (which  is  the  ob- 
ject of  the  true  religion,)  and  then  transferred  it  to  their 
successors  with  all  the  accumulated  advantages  of  their 
respective  predecessors. 

Could  we  stand  in  the  council  chamber  of  heaven,  and 
with  the  eye  of  Omniscience  sm-vey  in  the  field  of  our 
vision  the  whde  of  the  divine  procedure  towards  our 
world,  we  should  see  a  steady,  onward,  irresistible  march 
of  Providence,  executing  the  divine  purposes  and  at 
every  step  approaching  the  goal  of  a  final  and  glorious 
consummation.  But  standing  as  we  do  at  an  infinite  re- 
move from  the  Imperial  centre,  and  amidst  aU  the  dark- 
ness, disorders  and  perversion  of  sin  where  so  much  is  to 
be  undone  before  God's  peculiar  work  on  earth  can  be 
done— where  there  must  be  so  much  puUing  down  of  both 
superstructure  and  foundation,  before  the  true  Temple 
can  be  reared  and  completed,  preparatory  work  often 


FIBST  WHAT  SIN  CAN  DO. 


841 


appears  to  us  not  the  work  of  progress,  but  of  retroffres- 
Bion.  ® 

The  correct  view  we  believe  is,  that  the  eDergies  of 
Providence  are  engaged  to  erect  a  -p^fed  buMing-to 
elaborate  and  complete  a  perfect  systei  ..    But  as  he  will 
do  this  through  the  medium  of  human  sagacity  and  toil, 
all  possible  systems,  we  had  almost        !.  „re  permitted 
to  exist  while  the  great  building-the  true  system-is  in 
progress,  that  an  endless  variety  of /ads  may  be  elicited, 
experiments  tried  and  results  arrived  at,  from  which  as 
from  a  profuse  mass  and  medley,  human  wisdom  may 
choose  the  good  and  eschew  the  bad,  and  under  the  eye 
of    the  great    Architect,  produce  the    perfect   temple. 
Hence  the  many  strange  systems,    developments    and 
fantasies  which  have  been  permitted,  not  only  in  religion, 
but  m  pohtics  ethics,  etc.    They  are  the  nuMals  from 
which  to  select    The  middle  ages  were  peculiarly  proli- 
fie  in  these,  and  as  peculiarly  preparatory  to  the  advanced 
state  of  the  world  which  followed.    This  advanced  state 
was  a  result-a  compound-a  fabrication  from  preexist- 
ing matenals,  all  thrown  into  the  crucible  together,  fused 
-the  dross  bemg  removed-and  run  in  a  new  mould. 

in.  It  comports  with  the  divine  plan  that  sin  ahovid  have 
f^s  perfect  mrk  Earth  is  a  usurped  province-Satan  is 
^e  '  god  of  this  world."  And  the  hi.toiy  of  his  reign  is 
written  with  a  pen  of  iron,  and  shaU  be  read  in  heavenly 
places,  an  indelible  lesson  throughout  the  interminable 
duration  of  eternity,  presenting  an  awfdly  edifying  con- 
trast  of  the  misery  of  sin  and  the  beauty  of  holiness. 

The  world  is  a  vast  machine,  in  every  part  made  right, 
and  If  managed  nght  could  produce  nothing  but  holiness 
and  happiness.  Yet  under  the  administration  of  his 
Satonic  Majesty,  so  completely  perverted  is  everything 
that  the  world  is  as.notorious  for  violence  and  corruption 
as,  under  a  nght  regimen,  it  would  be  for  peace  and 


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punty.    In  aUowing  Satan  to  dabble,  aa  he  is  alwava 
disposed  to,  in  the  religious  affairs  of  the  world,  in  poU- 
tics,  m  the  social  and  domestic  economy  of  men,  in  their 
science  and  literature,  and  in  yielding  him  the  vast  re- 
sources of  the  world,  God  has  furnished  all  his  inteDiRent 
creatures  a  durable  and  melancholy  specimen  of  what 
sort  of  use  sin  makes  of  things  and  creatures  originally 
and  intrinsically  good.    And  when  this  miserable  experi- 
ment  shaU  have  been  sufficiently  tried,  and  its  results 
made  sufficien  y  manifest,  the  great  King,  the  rightful 
Sovereign,  shall  put  down  the  Usurper  and  exhibit  on  the 
same  field  the  diametricaUy  opposite,  the  infinite  benefi- 
cent and  glonous  results  of  His  reign. 

The  extravagances,  superstitions  and  cruelties  of  false 
rehgions-or,  as  Carlyle  would  have  it,  « their  bewilder- 
mg  mextncable  jungle  of  delusions,  conclusions,  false- 
hoods and  absurdities,"  stand  before  us  as  so  many  per- 
versions of  the  truth-the  "  many  inventions  "of  sin-not 
on^al  errors  but  corruptions  and  perversions. 

We  shall  now  undertake  to  confirm  what  wo  have  before 
asserted,  that  religion,  philosophically  regarded,  is  one 
^and  consecutive,  progressive  system  from  its  germ  in 

tilTf^-f'^^.^""'  ^^""^  *"  "«  glorious  conBummation 
in  the  family  of  the  second  Adam.  And  that  con-espond- 
mg  with  this  there  has  run  a  parallel  series  of  coSr- 
felts,  imitating  the  genuine  in  form  and  kttering,  yet  in- 
trmsically  possessing  little  or  nothing  in  common 

Satan  is  a  bold  and  accurate  imitator,  not  (from  poKcy 
only)  antnvent<yr,  in  the  things  of  religion.  He  too  weU 
knows  the  force  of  man's  religious  instinct,  and  too  weU 
understands  ihai  there  is  a  spirit  in  man  which  "Xes^ 
ses  with  t^e  spmt  of  God,  approving  as  heaven-bom,  the 
rehgion  of  God's  revealing,  whether  it  be  shadowed  forth 
but  obscurely  or  revealed  clearly,  to  expect  to  palm  on 
the  world  a  sheer  fabrication  of  his  own.    He  pays  to 


HI8T0BT  OF  Tna  raoi  lUlUOIOH.  343 

dime  wisdom  the  foreod  homage  oJclothinR  higfahehnn^. 

development.  ohZgbTard  modiW         ?'.  P«'"d™ti«I 

greM  moral  diee^e  of  man  was  revealed  and  Z  Ch  Joh 
If^lShf  "^''''?^'"'"'  '"^  Pomt  radiates  the  fi,S 
spread  through  a  succession  of  holy  men  composW  the 
Church  from  Adam  to  Noah.  The  posteritHr  siTh 
transmitted  the  blessing  through  man^enXns  tS 

^theXrjLr.^  *"■"'  °'  '"«  -'''  peoplZ'art 

theru^\^;Ltrn„rwra%t:w]::^rt-°.! 

could  not  be  hid.  There  must  hi:^^ L  :t  Je^jt:^ 
general  knowledge  of  the  true  God  and  of  thTwav  to 
which  he  ought  to  be  worshipped  among  the  nationTwh" 
hved  before  the  flood.    Nor  is  it  certl  that  men  had 

error  had  yet  been  consolidated.  Wickedness  there^r 
and  violence  and  oormption,  which  cried  to  heaven  hr 
vengeance,  yet  perhaps  not  yet  organized  in.„  srtem 
Noah  transplanted  thegermof  antedauvian  piety  X  the 
new  world,  where  it  took  root  and  early  spread  ov«  Z 
newly  peopled  earUi.  j'   i-  oau  over  tue 


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THE    POOT-PRINTS  OP  SATAN. 


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Then  followed  the  clearer  manifestation  of  the  truth  to 
Abraham,  which  continued  from  the  calling  of  the  father 
of  the  faithful  till  the  giving  of  the  law  at  Sinai.  Then 
came  the  gorgeous  ceremonial  of  the  tabernacle  in  the 
wilderness,  shadowing  forth  new  truths  and  elucidat- 
ing old  ones,  and  aU  looking  forward  with  a  clearer 
distinctness  to  Christ,  the  great  reality.  Then  followed 
the  spiritual  kingdom  of  Christ,  or  the  setting  up  of  the 
true  tabernacle. 

In  Judaism,  which  was  the  growth  of  a  thousand  years, 
and  of  which  modem  Judaism  is  the  Popery,  we  meet  the 
first  great  rescue  and  concentration  of  whatever  was  true 
in  former  systems  of  religion.  In  Christianity  we  have 
the  first  true  'Church.  This  is  the  summation  of  the  whole. 
But  we  are  at  present  interested  rather  to  trace  the 
corresponding  counterfeit^,  that  we  may  see  how  men 
swerved  from  the  simple  truth  as  taught  in  nature's 
book,  worshipping  the  work  rather  than  the  great  Worker, 
the  creature  than  the  Creator,  yet  in  tiie  perversion  there 
still  remain  the  indubitable  traces  of  the  original  and  the 
true.  I 

As  an  example  of  this,  we  may  refer  to  the  weU-known 
Incarnations  of  Vishnu  of  Hindoo  mythology,  in  which  we 
can  scarcely  fail  to  discover  the  true  idea  of  the  Incarna- 
tion of  the  true  Deity.    But  we  are  furnished  in  ancient 
mythology  with  a  yet  more  striking  illustration  in  the 
case  of  Osiris,  the  celebrated  hero-god  of  the  Egyptians. 
This  Deity  about  whom  clustered  all  their  hopes  of  im- 
mortality, was  fabled  to  have  slept  in  death  and  to  have 
nsen  triumphant  over  the  powers  of  evil.    He  was  ac- 
knowledged as  the  god  to  be  worshipped    tLroughout 
the  great  valley  of  the  Nile. 

There  is  something  singular  in  the  history  of  this  In- 
■carnation.  Osiris  is  the  Messiah  of  the  old  Egyptian  re- 
ligion.   And  it  is  remarkable  how  many  of  the  attributes 


Irf  i^ 


OSIRIS  THE  EGYPTIAN  MESSIAH.  345 

name  was  never  pronounced  ® 

that  of  the  ciJ:^:^^^^^'''''^:^:^'^'-^'''  ™a 

ilation  ?    Perchance  it  marberepW  1:^11    ?  "1""; 
dear  conceptions  of  Him  i^:  X '^l^^lfZlt 

back,  making  these  the  indehble  traces  of  the  preaching 
o  Noah  on  the  mind  of  the  world.  Noah  was  a  preacief 

n  dLtt withS'  ^'\ r''''"^  p-'-"^'  4— 

no  doubt  with  the  revelations  already  extant  concermn^ 
the  Messiah  settled  in  Egypt-became  the  fonnZTol 
aa  Ejnpire  there,  the  compliei.  of  their  sac^d  tool^' 
and  the  ongmators  of  their  reUgious  system. 

Regarding  aU  false  religions  as  merely  perversions  of 
the  one  true  religion,  we  may  assume  thaf  the  reU^n  of 

were  extant  at  the  time;  consequently  it  is  not  strange 


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THE   POOT-PRINTS  OF  SATAN. 


that  so  prominent  an  element  or  idea  as  that  of  an  incar- 
nation of  the  deity  should  have  been  drawn  from  the 
true  reUgion  and  incorporated  in  this  ancient  system  of 
idolatry. 

But  all  this  was  scarcely  more  than  physical  religion — 
at  most  but  intellectual,  involving  little  or  nothing  of  the 
mordi  element.  It  worshipped  a  natural  divinity,  a  god 
of  power,  valor,  prowess,  the  grand  architect  and  gar- 
nisher  of  the  heavens. 

Not  till  a  much  later  period  do  we  find  the  moral  ele- 
ment introduced  into  religious  beliefs.     That  the  divine 
power  which  they  worshipped  had  a  moral  basis — that 
God  is  a  moral  governor  and  men  subjects  of  a  moral 
government,  they  did  not  discover.    The  introduction  of 
this  element  was  an  advanced  step  in  the  history  of  religion 
— the  result  of  a  special  re^•elation.    How  much  of  the 
moral  was  introduced  into  these  early  systems  from  reve- 
lations made  to  the  Patriarchs  and  early  prophets,  we 
cannot  determine.    True  it  is  that  the  darkness  of  human 
depravity  soon  overshadowed  the  fairest  of  these  forms 
of  belief.    The  light  in  them  became  darkness.     And  we 
now  can  only  discover  the  true  by  its  counterfeit.    Seeing 
the  spurious  coin  we  judge  of  the  genuine. 

In  the  progress  of  religious  belief,  I  said,  came  Judaism 
— not  a  new  religion  but  a  new  dispensation  of  the 
ancient  faith,  clothed  in  new  light  and  the  moral  element 
more  distinctly  marked.  Moses  was  not  an  originator 
but  a  compiler.  The  beggarly  elements  of  the  world  were 
now  clothed  in  a  celestial  dress.  The  physical  yielded  to 
the  moral.  God  revealed  himself  as  the  moral  governor. 
The  scattered  rays  of  light  which  had  hitherto  done  little 
more  among  the  nations  than  to  make  the  surroimding 
darkness  visible,  seem  now  concentrated  on  Sinai,  burst 
forth  from  the  terrible  cloud  with  all  the  vividness  of  a 
new  revelation  and  all  the  terribleness  of  the  divine 


NEW  LIGHT  FKOM  SINAI. 


847 


majesty  chaUenging  the  homage  and  love  of  a  rebellious 
race     These  coUected  rays  were  woven  into  a  beam, 
which  we  call  the  c^vine  law.    What  of  God  had  been 
but  indis  inc  ly  shadowed  forth  in  nature  or  imperfectly 
revealed  to  the  Patriarchs  was  now  clearly  made  known 
His  mora  character  was  made  to  stand  out  in  bold  relief 
of  which  his  law  was  made  the  transcript.    Doctrines, 
duties,  precepts  were  of  consequence  marked  with  equal 
cleamess.    It  was  a  new  and  vastly  improved  edition  of 
any  previous  system  of  faith.    It  was  toith  developed, 
defined,  emancipated  as  coming  from  the  hands  of  the 
Patnarchs  to  whom  God  had  entrusted  ike  clearest  reve- 
lafaons  of  himself-or  truth   rescued  from  the  abuse, 
corruption  and  darkness  into  which  it  had  fallen  in  the 
hands  of  surrounding  Pagan  nations. 
An  imposing  oerewima^new  only  in  its  form-was 

ZjtZt     •.    "'  f"^  ^^'^^  ™  ^''  *^^  originator. 
Most  of  the  ntes  and  ceremonies  of  the  Levitical  law 
were  akeady  m  vogue.    Moses  collected  the  scattered 
fragments  and  wrote  them  in  a  book-reduced  a  dis- 
tracted  ceremomal  to  order,  defined  the  number,  circum- 
stances  and  uses  of  such  rites  as  God  approved,  insti- 
tuted  an  order  of  men  who  should  take  charge  of  the 
sacerdotal  department,  designated  the  persons  who  should 
hold  office,  and  made  the  whole  more  clearly  significant 
It  now  became  a  system  with  an  officiating  priesthood 
and  a  law,  aU  setting  forth  a  Messiah  who  should  come. 
We  have  noted,  as  we  have  passed  through  the  dark 
generations  of  idolatry,  vestiges  of  light  and  truth-light- 
houses guiding  wrecked  mariners  in  the  way  of  life     A 
very  remarkable  instance  of  this  we  meet  in  the  foUow- 
mg  hymn  of  Cleanthes,  dating  back  into  a  remote  anti- 
quity,  and  justly  regarded  as  a  remarkable  testimony  to 
the  truth-a  hght  shining  through  long  ages  of  darkness. 
It  was  read  by  St.  Paul-quoted  on  Mars  HilL    It  sete 


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THE   POOT-PRINTS  OP  SATAN. 


forth  God  as  the  Creator  of  aU  things,  the  Benefactor, 
supreme  King  and  Judge,  exposes  the  foUy  of  idolatry 
and  inculcates  a  pure  morality : 

« Great  Jove,  most  glorious  of  the  immortal  gods, 
Wide  known  by  many  names,  Almighty  One, 
King  of  all  nature,  ruling  all  by  law. 
We  mortals  thee  adore,  as  duty  calls  ; 
For  thou  our  Father  art,  and  we  thy  sons, 
On  whom  the  gift  of  speech  thou  hast  bestowed 
Alone  of  all  that  live  and  move  on  earth. 
Thee,  therefore,  will  I  praise  ;  and  ceaseless  show 
To  aU  thy  glory  and  thy  mighty  power. 
This  beauteous  system  circling  round  the  earth 
Obeys  thy  will,  and,  wheresoe'er  thou  leadest. 
Freely  submits  itself  to  thy  control. 
Such  is,  in  thine  unconquerable  hands, 
The  two-edged,  fiery,  deathless  thunderbolt ; 
Thy  minister  of  power,  before  whose  rtroke 
All  nature  quails,  and  trembling,  stands  aghast ; 
By  which  the  common  reason  thou  dost  guide, 
,  Pervadmg  aU  things,  filling  radiant  worlds. 

The  sun,  the  moon,  and  all  the  host  of  stars, 
So  great  art  thou,  the  universal  King. 
Without  thee  naught  is  done  on  earth,  0  God  I 
Nor  in  the  heavens  above,  nor  in  the  sea  ; 
Naught  save  the  deeds  unwise  of  sinful  men. 
Yet  harmony  from  discord  thou  dost  bring  j 
That  which  is  hateful,  thou  dost  render  fair  ; 
Evil  and  good  dost  so  co-ordinate, 
That  everlasting  reason  shall  bear  sway  ; 
Which  sinful  men,  blinded,  forsake  and  shun, 
Deceived  and  hapless,  seeking  fancied  good. 
The  law  of  God  they  will  not  see  nor  hear ; 
Which  if  they  would  obey,  would  lead  to  life. 
But  they  unhappy  rush,  each  in  his  way. 
For  glory  some  in  eager  conflict  strive  : 
Others  are  lost  inglorious,  seeking  gain  ; 
To  pleasure  others  turn  and  sensual  joys, 
Hasting  to  ruin,  whilst  they  seek  for  life. 
But  thou,  O  Jove  !  the  giver  of  all  good. 
Darting  the  lightning  from  thy  home  of  olouda, 
Permit  not  man  to  perish  darkling  thus  i 


RESCUE  OF  LOST  TRUTHS.  349 

From  foUy  save  them  ;  bring  them  to  the  Irght  : 
Give  them  to  know  the  everlasting  layr 
By  which  in  righteousness  thou  ralest  all ; 
That  we,  thus  honored,  may  return  to  thee 
Meet  honor,  and  with  hymns  declare  thy  deeds, 
Ajid  ♦.hough  we  die,  hand  down  thy  deathless  praise. 
Since  nor  to  men  nor  gods  is  higher  meed. 
Than  ever  to  extol  with  righteous  praise 
The  glorious,  univeraal  King  Divine." 

I  have  said  there  was  c  JginaUy  truth  in  the  old  svstemg 
of  Pagamsm-they  were  originaUy  founded  in  tiuth— 
much  of  reality  in  them_a  worship  of.  God  as  they  hmw 
him— saw  him,  or  through  the  sources  by  which  W  re- 
vealed himself  to  them.  But  times  change.  What  was 
true  m  its  time,  became  false.  Further  revelations  gave 
men  higher  views  of  God  on  the  one  hand,  and  further 
developments  of  human  depravity  led  men  to  lose  sight 
of  God  m  the  objects  they  worshipped  as  true  emblems 
of  the  divmity  and  to  worship  these  objects  themselves. 

The  old  systems  existed  for  a  purpose— answered  that 
purpose— lasted  or  wiU  last  till  the  good  and  true  is 
transfused  in  the  new  system  and  then  will  die,  having 
done  the  work  of  their  generation. 

The  design  of  Judaism  (as  of  Christianity)  therefore  in 
her  mdignant  denunciation  of  Paganism,  is  not  the  con- 
demnation of  the  truth  which  was  then  revealed,  but  it 
IS  to  bring  religion  back  to  that  truth— and  not  that  truth 
only,  but  to  that  truth  as  expounded  and  cleared  from  the 
dross  of  error  and  its  boundaries  enlarged  by  the  rich 
accessions  of  aU  subsequent  revelations.  New  mines 
were  opened,  richer  and  more  abundant,  and  yet  aU  the 
puir>  gold  of  the  old  ones  was  carefully  preserved  and 
worked  into  the  new  tabernacle. 

But  the  general  views  here  taken,  supply,  in  this 
connection,  another  thought.  It  is  that  we  discover 
herein  reasomioi  one  common  and  universal  religion,  which 


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shall  finally  pervade  every  human  heart,  and  enclose  in 
its  broad  fold  the  entire  family  of  man. 

All  nature  proclaims  such  a  consummation  for  man, 
and  in  equal  distinctness  proclaims  Christianity  to  be 
such  a  religion.  It  is,  as  no  other  religion,  adapted  to 
man's  wants,  to  his  progress  and  to  his  full  development, 
whether  it  bQ  in  this  life  or  the  life  to  come.  It  is  under 
the  auspices  of  this  form  of  religion  that  mind  is  quickened 
and  matured  and  made  to  subserve  the  great  purposes  of 
human  advancement — that  human  genius  is  set  on  the 
alert  of  inveitfon  and  discovery — that  the  powers  of 
nature  are  evolved,  applied  and  appropriated  to  man's  use 
and  progress.  It  is  this  form  of  rehgion  which  addresses 
itsell  to  the  hmrt,  and  cultivates  the  moral  feelings  and 
evolves  i'.iA  applies  the  moral  powers  of  man.  It  addres- 
ses itself  to  the  whole  mar,  develops  all  his  powers,  and 
fits  him  for  his  full  and  final  destiny. 

It  is  a  service,  adoration  and  praise  paid  to  the  God  of 
nature.  It  is  a  supreme  veneration  of  the  power  that 
made  the  world  and  keeps  eveiy  star  in  its  course,  and 
manages  the  great  and  universal  machine  as  he  pleases. 
It  is  the  supreme  admiration  of  the  wisdom  which  de- 
vises, adjusts,  preserves  and  adapts  all  things  so  as  to 
secure  the  whole  against  a  single  failure,  and  to  bring  out 
of  the  whole  the  great  and  benevolent  end  designed.  It 
is  the  '*  transcendent  wonder  "  of  the  love  and  benevolence 
of  God  in  so  forming,  controlling  and  adjusting  all  things 
as  to  bring  good  out  of  the  whole.  No  poison  is  so 
venomous  that  it  is  not  made  to  yield  a  sweet,  no 
cloud  so  dark,  no  tempest  so  devastating,  no  providential 
dispensation  so  disastrous,  that  it  yields  not  in  the  end 
some  permanent  and  substantial  good. 

In  the  highest  possible  sense  then  the  religion  of 
Christ  is  a  natural  religion.  Did  we  need  further  proof 
of  this  we  should  find  it  in  its  peculiar  adaptations  to  the 


;?a!g3i^|ssa»isgf. 


OHRISTUNirr  VOE  MAN.  352 

has  made  the  S  to  1  '^^''"''""^"g  *»"«  ''orld.    It 
has  moulded  itTnt     ^"'^^  "'  ™''«™'  "'"l"'.  and 

in  the  form  of  modn^  ""  progress.    It  has, 

made  natlne^o™  iZT'T^."''"'^  "''^  ^"^ 
the  wealth  of  ftTw^l?  Zr    .  '^°''''  ""  P'^"^''™* 

wa,s  and  tewZS  ^t^ed  abr:a'Jt[r'  ^'"^  ""• 
of  the  Cross  and  sapnUed  .u^^!.    """/">«  ""^ssengers 

the  universal  diffnS  ofther::," TtT'TT '"^ 
the  Bible  into  almost  every  fS  to/'  has  translated 

distant  advances  which  awaif  n„r  ,...    ^^'a"^^  ot  the  no 

^ea^ing  up  Of  the  t^ZZe'^^TZ:;!^: 

TZv,  F  ";  "  '^''*'"'  ^^^^""^  different  brS 

of  the  human  famjy  become  better  known  to  each  othT 
and  by  an  interchange  of  sentimente  and  thought^i 
weU  as  of  the  commodities  of  commerce,  they  oontS'ute 
to  a  mutual  and  indefinite  advancement.  '='«""''»'« 

Ohnstianity  as  ite  most  obvious  impress  indicates  and 
rtsmost  spontaneous  woriings  ever^here  ™uch    ^ 

tood-for  whom,  as  the  proprietor  and  controUer  of  all 
fcepowe„  and  resources  of  nature  as  placed  at  hisdf 
posal  for  has  advancement,  whether  physical,  ment^,  „r 


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religious,  and  for  the  realization  of  all  he  is  promised, 
or  all  he  is  capable  of,  here  or  hereafter. 

No  other  religion  has  ever  exercised  in  the  world  such 
transforming  power,  no  other  contains  in  itself  the  ele- 
ments of  such  transformations.  False  religions  are  local 
in  their  character — temporary  in  duration,  and  mercenary 
in  their  application,  and  degrading  and  oppressive  in 
proportion  as  their  spirit  pervades  the  hearts  and  minds 
of  their  votaries.  They  are  most  obviously  made  for  the 
priest,  the  king,  and  the  Devil  and  not  for  the  people— not 
for  the  expansion  of  the  human  mind— not  for  the  culti- 
vation of  the  human  heart— not  to  elevate  society,  cherish 
freedom,  define  and  protect  human  rights,  or  bless  the 
race. 

There  are  two  features  of  our  religion  which,  contem- 
plated in  the  present  connection,  commend  it  as  a 
religion  especially  for  man.  They  are  its  social  charader, 
and  its  teaching  ministry.  In  these  two  features  it  differs 
essentially  from  all  false  religions,  and  challenges  its 
claims  to  universal  regard  and  adoption  by  the  whole 
family  of  man.  In  proportion  as  a  religion  is  spurious  it 
substitutes  a  ritual  for  a  sermon,  a  ceremonial  and  a 
solitary  worship  for  the  social  and  public  worship  of  the 
sanctuary— penance  for  repentance,  and  the  dogmas  of 
priests  for  the  simple  teachings  of  the  word  of  God. 


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MODERN  SPURIOUS  RELIGIONS. 


THEIR  PRAOTIOAL  TENDENCIES  -  KE8ULTS  -  INFLUENCE  ON 
SOCIEIT-ON  GOVERNMENTS,  AND  ON  CHARACTER  IN 
GENERAL—  ROME  PAPAL  AND  ROME  PAGAN  —  POINTS  OF 
AGREEMENT. 

We  turn  next  to  the  handiwork  of  our  great  adver- 
sary, as  seen  in  his  schemes  for  deluding  and  then 
monopohzing  the  human  mind,  and  the  powers  and 
resources  of  man,  through  more  modem  forms  of  false 
rehgions.  As  times  change,  and  the  world  advances,  the 
pnnce  of  darkness  changes  his  tactics  and  the  mode  of 
his  attack.  Hence  the  different  phases  of  idolatry  while 
the  nature  and  spirit  remain  the  same. 

Modern  false  religions  have  usually  been  divided  into 
three  general  classes :  Paganism,  Mohammedanism  and 
Bomanism.  These  have  a  common  origin,  and  they 
have  m  their  deleterious  results  on  the  condition  of  man 
more  m  common  than  is  generally  supposed.  Based  as 
they  aU  are  on  a  practical  atheism,  it  is  sometimes  diffi- 
cult to  determine  which  of  them  recogniizes  the  least  of 
the  true  God.    In  theory  they  aU  acknowledge  one  su- 

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THE  POOT-PRINTS  OF  SATAN. 


preme  God.  But  in  practice  they  as  uniformly  deny  him. 
Neither  call  in  question  the  abstract  bemg  of  God  Such 
a  monstrosity  only  falls  within  the  dark  domains  of 
atheism. 

In  nothing  do  we  more  distinctly  see  the  conflict  be- 
tween the  corrupt  heart,  and  reaeon  and  a  right  con- 
science than  in  the  existence  and  character  of  these  three 
forms  of  false  rehgion.  They  propose  a  compromise  be- 
tween the  conflicting  elements  of  man.  Eeason  hmwa 
there  is  a  God,  conscience  feels  it  and  recognizes  has 
right  of  dominion  over  us,  but  the  heart  denies  and 
revolts.  It  disdains  to  acknowledge  any  such  authority. 
Having  no  complacency  in  the  character  of  such  a  God  it 
would  rather  have  no  God. 

Hence  the  mvention  of  other  gods  and  of  corresponding 
systems  of  religion. 

To  the  demands  of  reason  and  conscience  that  God  be 
recognized,  the  heart  so  far  yields,  in  the  instance  of 
false  reUgions,  as  to  grant  the  abstract  fact  of  a  God,  but 
reserves  to  itself  the  prerogative  of  clothing  this  being 
with  attributes  congenial  with  its  own  corrupt  nature. 
Or  it  only  theoretically  acknowledges  the  being  of  one 
supreme  God,  then  adds  other  lesser  deities  to  whom  it 
pays  adorations  and  praises,  while  practically  it  loses 
sight  of  both  the  being  and  authority  of  the  true  God. 
"What,  then,  has  sin  done?    It  has  cast  a  dark  and 
impenetrable  cloud  between  the  effulgence  of  the  great 
white  throne  and  this  lower  world.    It  has  covered  the 
earth   with  darkness  and  its  inhabitants  with  a  gross 
darkness.    It  has  exercised  the  uttermost  of  the  power 
that  has  been  granted  it,  to  shut  out  God  fi-om  the  world 
and  to  usurp  his  dominion  over  this  part  of  his  empire. 
How  this  is  done  appears  in  the  cursory  survey  we 
have  taken  of  the  principal  false  religions  that  have 
afflicted  our  world   and  covered  its  inhabitants  with 


mOUTET  A  OHABiOTEBISno  OP  PilBE  BEUOION       866 

weepinft  lamentation  and  woe  ahnost  from  the  time  that 
Qodsa.d  "<fe  *.y  i„  roMok  ye  eat  (k.e^  ye  .M^" 
matry  has  been  the  prevailing  oSm^teristio  of 
everr  false  rehgion.  By  which  we  mean,  not  necessarily 
a  formal  prostration  to  idols,  but  «.  at4mpt  tolS 
from  ae  most  excellent  character  of  God,  to  tt.i:^  „1tm 

Tt  tf"^'^  ^^  "^^  ^^  »  o^  «B  ourselves  or  to 
»bst.tatesomethingin  hispbce.  The  particUa^  1^ 
^ffl»f  f  ^  i-"  a^med  in  different  countries  SZ 
Afferen  ages  of  the  world,  has,  as  we  have  seen.depen" 
ed  on  the  cnroumstances  under  which  it  has  eSd. 
The  spmt  has  been  essentiaUy  the  same,  but  Z  ^tti 
«hape  has  varied  with  the  inteUeotual  c  jture  of  a^Z 
w.1h  the.  moral  condition,  with  the  degree  of  the  W 

^t^i  71    "■""  ?"*^^'  '^^  *"  ""  i-^oonsiderabte 

extent  with  the  general  progress  of  learning  and  moral 

science  m  the  world  at  large.    All  these  thiC?tho^ 

S^  r  «^»«fj.«''<-««d  the  nature  S'esse^ce 

of  Idolatry  have  modified  ita  appeararms,  and  not  unfre- 

quently  changed  its  name.    WhCver,  b^  straT  ZS 

obhquity,  a  comparatively  polished  and  learn  Ji^^^te 

have  been  idoUters,  they  have  refined  on  the  grossS^of 

toe  general  system  till  they  have  shorn  it  HZm 

Its  more  glanng  deformities,  as  weU  as  of  some  of  ite 

More  gross  enormities,  and  thus  suited  it  to  the  age  aid 

o^^mstances  in  which  it  was  to  exist.    Whiir^n  Z, 

oth«  hand,  m  the  darker  ages  of  the  world,  or  among  ^ 

more  ignorant  and  debased  people,  it  has  presented  » 

g^ser  form  and  been  exemplified  in  more  oLZTLI 

abominations.    We  may  be  the  more  shocked  with  the 

^■o7^'fo::r"  ^-^'^^'^^  «>«  -^^^vatod 

ih^  ^f  ""^y  "«"  ""O"  »t  first  beguiled  intoidokby 
that  we  do  not  greatly  wonder  at  the  success  of  Z 
tempter.    No  one  can  look  upon  toe  broad  expanse  of 


356 


THE  POOT-PBDJTS  OP  SATAN. 


midst  of  which  the  imperial  sun  has  placed  his  taber- 
nacle as  an  Eastern  monarch  in  the  midst  of  his  shininc 
hosts  or  where  tiie  moon  bears  her  mild  sway  by  night 
and  displays  her  chastened  glory,  and   not  be  awed 
into,  reverence,  and  be  consteained  to  explain  how  great 

LTT  V  I  ^fTJ^  ^^  ^1^°  garnished  the  heaven^ 
as  well  as  he  that  laid  the  foundations  of  the  earth.  But 
If  we  add  to  the  idea  the  ancients  had  of  the  heavens,  the 
notions  we  have  gained  by  the  developments  of  modern 
science-if  we  admit  the  imiumerable  hosts  of  planets 
that  adorn  the  concave  of  heaven  to  be  so  many  worlds 
like  our  own  moving  majesticaJly  round  theb  respective 
suns  and  revolvmg  about  their  axes,  producing  the  revo- 

inrri?  i7  ^""1  "^^^^  *^**  *^"  vicissitudes  of  the  seasons, 
and  thus  fittmg  them  as  suitable  abodes  for  animal  hfe- 
it  we  admit  the  numberless  stars  that  twinkle  in  the 
uttermost  verge  of  space,  to  be  so  many  suns~the 
centres  of  so  many  systems  that  revolve  about  them,  we 
are  overawed  by  the  power,  the  exceUency,  and  the  ma- 
jesty of  Him  who  spoke  them  into  e  dstence  by  the  word 
of  his  power.  To  one  who  did.rof  Inow  the  deceitful^ 
ness  of  sm  It  might  seem  but  a  littKdeparture  from  the 
true  worship  to  pay  honors  to  the  hosts  of  the  firmament 
as  rjresentaUves  of  God.    For  in  nothing  is  ttiere  shad-' 

later  period  m  the  history  of  idolatry,  it  seemed  but  a 
slight  depaiiure  from  tiie  worship  of  the  true  God  to  wor- 
ship Him  with  the  help  of  pictures  and  ma^e.-and  then 
through  the  medium  of  saints  and  angels,  but  in  the  end  it 

rjt  ?  I'  i  "^  '"'^''^^  ^^^g^  «^  «  «J«te«^  of  idol- 
atry that  has  done  more  than  any  other  to  keep  tJie 
human  mind  in  bondage.  ««p  «ie 

Such  has  been  the  origin  of  idolatry  in  two  very  differ- 
ent ages-the  one,  the  idolatry  of  Uie  Pagan  w  Jrld  and    • 


V 


HOHAMMEDANISlf. 


357 


the  other  of  the  Christian  world.  Pagans  use  the  same 
ar^ments  to  vindicate  idol  worship  that  Bomanists  do 
to  defend  the  idolatry  of  their  religion.  The  one  differs 
from  the  other  in  Ufctle  else  than  in  name  and  m  some 
of  the  modes  of  performing  their  worship.  The  one  is 
the  idolatry  of  a  Christian  age,  the  other  of  a  Pagan  age. 
Both  were  devices  of  the  arch  Fiend  to  cheat  men  out  of 
a  knowledge  of  God,  and  finally  to  beguUe  ihem  of  their 
immortal  souls. 

Mohammedanism,  the  other  principal  form  of  idolatry 
bears  nearly  the  same  relation  to  Paganism  that  Bomai  * 
^m  does  to  Christianity,  in  this  respect,  that  it  is  a  modi- 
fication of  idolatry  suited  ^o  the  climate,  habits,  mental 
culture  and  moral  tastes  of  those  extensive  oriental 
nations  that  had  heretofore  been  Pagan.  It  was  nearly 
contemporary  in  its  origin  wilh  Bomanism,  and  is  as 
peculiarly  uited  to  the  regions  of  country  over  which  it 
™  destmed  to  spread,  as  Bomanism  is  to  its  respective 

Here  it  is  worthy  of  remark  that  the  introduction  and 
promulgation  of  Christianity  in  our  world  produced  a 
very  marked    change  in    all  the  existmg    systems    of 
Idolatry.    A  new  hght  broke  in  upon  the  world,  and 
idolatry  had  now  to  be  essentiaUy  modified  so  as  to  suit 
the  new  state  mto  which  the  world  was  brought  by  the 
introduction  of  Christianity.    In  some  respects  it  must 
be  made  more  subtle,  in  other  things  less  gross.    Here  it 
must  suffer  an  amputation  of  excrescences  or  of  decayed 
parts,  there  it  must  receive  an  addition.    Some  systems 
were  thus  modified  or  remodeUed  where  others  were  com- 
pelled to  give  place  to  altogether  a  new  order  of  things. 
Of  the  former  are  Brahminism.of  India,  and  Boodhism' 
of  India  and  China,  and  the  Eastern  portions  of  Asia, 
and  of  the  latter  we  may  instance  the  old  systems  of 
Idolatry  that  were  spread  over  Persia,  Arabia,  and  all  the 


358 


THE  TOOT-PBINTO  OP  SATAN. 


troduced-though  in  so  corrupted  a  iormT^^Z 

oortome  to  8mt  the  spirit  of  the  &l.s.  "*" 

of^'idS'„'"™^"^^'™'«*«'««i«"»teo<&priBg 
tw  *r         TT  """^  "^'  °*  Satan  ?    Nothing  W 

P^aman,  Papacy  and  Mohammedanism.  ^ 

which  the  aritJa^ILZVil^ronlS"*""' 

Lions  ifz'^p:^d„l:  r::;T^;ittr::^r; 

^  the  „^ai  waste,  ^,4  ^^^^  f^„^  J   its  awM  .^1 

e'^Von^Z^iiSiir  W  «-~^ 
the  heart  i«  r.«voi    "T^^*^*    "^^^^  generous  aflfection  of 

^rce^tht-nrthrar^trr 

«oir  Kef  "^  '' '"^ '»°^-'>  - '^^ 'enSrl' 
Or  if  we  adrert  but  for  a  moment  to  the  yet  more 


THE  WOBST  OP  IDOLATBT.  359 

lament  th7^  ™L^1*  J  ^'°>  "'  y^'  "«"«  «»<Uy 
It  is  the  fattr  of7ltilTf  ""*  *"'  """  °'  °""  ^'^ 

IthardiTrheit'^.^erup'tWru^nT^"''"^- 
the  foundations  of  Wtne   con^TZf  f^f"^'  '^P' 

r^J^^.  and  Mast.  ilT^  itt,^!:^- 

bint  L'  rrrer;^:?  r ;  m  ^'- 

Paganism     11.!^       '  ?""   *PP**'   '•>«    worst  of 

the  withering  ^^^^  1tX»  •      n  .r  ""'^  "^  ^«™  i» 
of  life.    It  ento  Lio  1    ♦i^  '^  ""*  °'^»'3'  '«■»«<»« 

of  its  desolaSorevet:iro^i  n""  'T  *^  '^'» 
only  can  convev  to  thfLt^      A  Pei'sonal  acquaintance 

establishmenlLd  tuZn    ?  .  f  '"*  '^'»'«  »  *« 

achieved  its  saddest  tZ^n,!  "'  V^°'»'^-    ^''^   ''  ^'^ 

ofmorethLthr«fo^hf  •ffi'r'''*''''^^'''^^"^ 
robbed  them  ofttefr^^  •      *^\^'"^'^  '»■"%•    B  has 

innooenceld  shut  theT TT^'"''^''  '^«"'  <"  ^eir 
Would  wTw  If        °"^  *°°'  ""«  ^"^'^  of  heaven.      • 

must  Innir  o«,     !      ,    ™^®^^®*s  of  man's  great  Foe  we 
™'  '»»i  "way  to  where  "Satan's  seat"  is  and  conti! 


!     (' 


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THE  POOT-PMNTS  OF  SATAN. 


tt^tj^!^  r'°^  ^P''""-    ^«  ""-'  -e  what 
K   baa  done  m  enslaving  nations,  and  poisonino  «?. 

stress  of  life  among  congregated  n.iIlionrw7ml 
leMh^^e  for  a  nioment  pass  over  the  dark  dr«i:":J 

pendens  power  in'the^rid'isbu^S"  B«r'"; 
a  power  for  good  or  for  evil,  for  Oh4t  „  f" 'the  ^ 

•   anT.  p„4  reSn  ?  ."'t""*""'  °'  '^'"'  '"""ledge 

would  seen.  netiraTed^pI^^rr  '^^^"^"'^■^'  " 
its  arj- **•"", °'  ''''"'"^  ^'"'^  basis  is  infideKty  yet 

itsLtr'thesleas'tW  "r^'"]  "'  Christianity. 

.  «hmes,  are  essentiaUy  CkruUa,ClT^hJZMiZ 
emas  are  thunderbolts  borrowed  from  Jupiter,  whose 


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«ow  paoan:  eoke  PAPAt      '  8J1 

Persian  priestsheUe^  t"'.-'^""'!™-    ^""^  «"> 
»g«r  her  strf,  from  fte  je^.      kI™'  ?'""  *•■«  «»"'<» 
mantle,  and  heiaoarieratttZ™^^'"  '""  ""'•'^dered 
From  the  nndTinrlm         T  **  S"*'  «d  dragon, 
rowed  the  i^XVe^l^Z'''''' ^^''  *«  ^'- 
»i»e  her  altars,  mdbZZ^^^T^^  ""^^  i"»- 
fonnd  sanotnary  in  her  tel       ^«»'»' ™gi™  that  once 
pksof  Chri8tiiCeth?Ph!'  ""^'^"^  '"  "■«  t*""- 
Wy,  ^ho  sitteth  ™  th^LveH-ir.'^''''"'"'''  »'  °" 
but  not  inspirit,  and  XX'SvitT'  ""^'""'*' 

.  pondage  to  he/satn'S;;  b^tt  ^me""^*''^''  "''■ 

the  more  taking  appeUationo^^-Ws  of  A"T'.?',  ^^  ~ 
some  o(  these  we  honor  for  theh.  »  if  5""^"7.     ""d 

are  bnt  the  vestals  of  p7J^Z      '^'."^.'"'"'^■^  ^^^J 
stage  from  behind  the  cnS  Th.^^lr'"'""'  °°  ">« 
on  the  approach  of  tte?™Zt        *'  ""^^  ''"^  '^^^^d 
Jndea,  and  made  to  ^t  a  ™  'notTf-  '"^'^'  '"«  '^'^  °* 
yet  amidst  haUs  hunewfth!^!  1.      ""''""'  ''^  ""'"'e. 
the  passions  of  ^Tu'd^ntl^eZS  "'  1°  ""*<"  '» 
yet  whose  corrupt  soul  demaldS  i!  .  K  T"  'T«'°''' 
aUment    PaeaiSam  ~ J  T-    !?      substance  the  same 
Saints  took  CarZl"U'dt™  "*  Christianity, 
images  the  place  of  idoL  ''»oes-p,ctures  and 

ha™TntratTl!^;\':'^-r''r-fy  aU  we 

Pagan  idoIatrr.sSfhltpi^  "I  ^"^'^^  """i 
than  to  recaaouZ?^-  ,!      "^  ''"*  ^""^  ™e  more 

d«d,  is  nt  C  itir*^"  /  ■">"  image-which,  i^- 
simii;  of  the  old     nT»r-'?  ""'linage  but  a  fac- 

»upersoription-len   it   a  '  "^^"^  "^  "  "  »«" 

P  on    given   ,t   a  new  name  and   sealed  it 


86S 


THE  FOOT-PRINTS    OP  SATAN. 


with  a  new  rmrk,  and  made  its  hand  point  toward  the 
cross,  while  it  is  full  of  abominations  as  foul  as  ever 
polluted  the  shrines  of  Babylon  or  Sodom. 

The  following  comparison  between  the  religions  of 
Bome  and  Brahma  wiU  exhibit  at  least  some  of  the 
grounds  we  have  for  the  opinion  that  the  Papacy  is  but  a 
counterfeit  of  Christianity,  and  but  a  repubhcation  of  a 
volume  in  the  form  of  false  religions,  which  has  been  un- 
roUing  itself  with  the  revolutions  of  time,  the  same  in 
spirit  and  matter,  though  varying  in  type  and  form,  to 
accommodate  itself  to  man's  religious  instincts  as  mo- 
dified in  different  stages  of  development  in  society  and 
in  human  improvement. 

The  intelligent  reader  will  supply  the  counterfeit  of 
Popery  while  we  refer  to  several  points  of  agreement  as 
exhibited  on  the  part  of  Brahminism.     The  Hindoos 
in  theory  acknowledge  one  supreme  God,  yet  worship 
him  only  through  some  medium,  hence  the  multiplicity  of 
their  gods.     The  Brahmins  in  defence  of  idolatry,  affirm 
that  their  images  and  visible  representations  are  but 
hdps  to  devotion,  not  necessary  for  the  learned  and  holy, 
but  indispensable  for  the  ignorant  and  unstable,  who 
cannot  contemplate  divine  essences  and  indulge  in  holy 
abstractions,  but  must  have  some  visible  object  before 
them  in  order  to  fix  the  mind.    Speaketh  not  Eome  the 
same  thing  ?    The  Hindoos  have  their  gocyrooa,  mediators 
and  intercessors  between  them  and  their  gods— their 
mendicants,  as  gosav-nees,  varagees— tlxeir  hermits,  monks, 
and  devotees— their  Bhuts,  answering  to  Eomish  Friars 
—their  vashias,  mves  of  tJie  gods  or  nuns.    Pilgrimages, 
penances,  bodily  inactions,  are  the  rank  luxuriance  of  a 
heathen  soil  transplanted  to  Koman  ground.    The  Hin- 
doos beUeve  righteousness  may  be  accumulated  by  good 
works,  and  penances  etc.,  and  be  trans/erred  to  others— 
which  may  be  bought  and  sold.  They  perform  the  Shaodhu 


BOmSH  AND  HINDOO  IDOLATBY.  „^ 

their  J:Tz  oTk^:c"iJi'^''  ^r^  ^ ««» 

perform  Judu  T»r..fT.^-'     ^^^  ^^  ***«  Moaary-^ 

Arfj^  ivater,  which  is  of  two  kinds  ■  th!  fiL  .!!    ** 

natural  products  of  the  cow  th.  A,?  !?  '  "*  °'  '^'•^'" 
the  priest  has  dipp^  Z'toe  Thtv^'T'''^"''"'' 
ward  and  outward    „^„;     T'         ^  ^'"^^  ^  '"to  >n- 

of  the  p'ptlT^rri^trTihtVtf  "'*"«"°'"'''« 
articles  of  their  faift-^S^t^v  *t  P""''  "^^ 
Shastas  or  sacred   b^X   S^'^  nf?  '"l"  *"* 

«latil.    IndeedXSi^uS'M  ^  °'  '"?"■* 

Wn;  a  worse  idolater  than  t^eEltisf"'""  "^  "^  ""^ 

of  ^"w^  ^fl"?™  '""°'"'«'7  <>'  tbe  ete  in  honor 
"CL^?^  .^tX'i'jf^.Mrdo'Sicily,  caurd 

Hindost^  r^t!il  Z%  """^  °'  Juggernaut  in 

Bosalia'a  ^»r!f  •.  J  .'  "'"'  "»"'  »  description  of 

sunersh-Hm,.,  •         "ooratioiis  of  a  tumultuous  throne  of 

ana  01  unssa.    Substitute  Juggernaut  for  the  name 


864 


THB  FOOT-PBINTS  OF  SATAN. 


of  tlie  Sicilian  goddess,  change  a  few  other  names,  and  give 
the  whole  a  Brahminian  costume  and  scenery,  and  wherein 
has  the  heathenism  of  Sioilj  the  preeminence  over  that 
of  Oiissa  ?  It  is  a  difference  in  name  but  not  in  spirit — 
in  pretension  and  arrogance  and  hypocrisy,  without  the 
remotest  resemblance  to  the  religion  of  the  meek  and 
lowly  One. 

No  one  can  read  the  history  of  the  early  oorruptioh  of 
the  Ohuroh,  from  the  third  to  the  seventh  century,  and  re- 
main ignorant  of  the  source  from  which  this  corruption 
mainly  originated.  The  assimilation  of  the  Christian 
Church,  in  many  of  its  rites,  usages  and  modes  of  wor- 
ship, with  those  of  the  heathen,  is  wofuUy  striking. 
The  great  and  good  Constantino  himself  contributed 
much  to  deck  the  Church  with  the  meretricious  orna- 
ments of  Paganism. 

The  denial  to  the  people  of  the  Bible,  is  a  feature  of 
the  Papacy  borrowed  from  Paganism.  As  in  the  one 
case,  so  in  the  other,  the  sacred  books  are  only  for  the 
Priesthood. 

Bomanism,  like  Pagan  religions,  is  a  religion  of  senses 
its  emotions  produced  by  sensible  objects,  as  images, 
pictures,  and  things  material.  The  idea  of  sin  dwell- 
ing in  the  animal  system  is  stolen  from  Hoathen  phi- 
losophy. So,  of  consequence,  physical  mortifications,  in 
which  the  Papal  religion  abounds,  appear  in  discred- 
itable rivalry  of  their  heathen  original. 

Again  jpersecution,  which  has  been  so  distinguishing  a 
feature  of  the  religion  oi  Bome,  is  of  Pagan  origin.  The 
conquest  of  a  country  was  the  conquest  of  its  gods. 
There  was  not  often  much  ostensible  resistance  to  the 
new  divinities  of  the  conquerors ;  and  no  visible  perse- 
cution. Pagans  and  Papists  walk  together  because 
agreed  in  all  essential  points.    They  live  in  harmony, 


HOME  PAPAL :  BOMB  PAOAN. 


865 


Jlfa,«,/„r/*.  rf««i  are  none  other  than  (he  practice  of 
the  Shradh  among  the  Hindoos,  in  a  poor  apology  of  „ 
Christian  dress.  The  near  relatives  of  the  deoeaL  .^ 
»mble  generaUy  on  the  bank  of  some  river,  or  about  t 

Shradh  m  honor  o  and  for  the  supposed  benefit  of  the 
dead.  It  18  usual  to  perform  a  monthly  Shradh  for  the 
firet  year  of  the  death  of  a  parent,  and  once  or  mL  ta 
every  year  IS  Shradh  performed  for  all  their  anZr" 

well  as  to  give  pleasure  to  the  departed,  and  ereatlv 

IS  attached  to  them,  and  no  pains  or  money  snared  in 
sending  succor  to  their  departed  ones.  jZ  who  doe" 
not  here  see  the  origin  of  Komish  Masses  for  The  dead 
as  a  most  prominent  rite  of  the  Eomish  Church  ? 

in  the  garb  of  Pope  as  universal  bishop,  the  Pontifei 
Maiamus  of  Eome  Pagan  has  once  more  appea^d^ 
pneethood.  it»  pompous  rites  and  goigeous  E  ite 
sac^ces,  incense  and  altars  are  fuUowT^^r  ^ 
from  Pagan  Eome,  partly  from  Judaism.    Its  holy  davs 

Hel  '^'  ,"t""  '?'^''  ""  P™'^  "'  heathen  ^  & 
Heathen  idols  have  in  modem  Some  received  a  new^t 
menclature.    Jupiter  is  now  St.  Peter.    Apollo  iT  s" 

powe;  JT""''*'^^°'""'•  "Tie»«>«rf  Beast  gives 
power  to  the  image  of  the  first  Beast."  Eev  viK   is 

SiZM'^"'-*  ^"^'^  pen«tuated,modified'id 

^age  of  St.  Mary  usurps  the  place,  in  the  Pantheon  at 
Eome,  once  oecujrfed  by  the  colossal  statue  of  j:^t:r 

i^  h2'  ^*  JT'*'  ^""^  ''**"*"'  J"P'*«'.  ninety  feet 
m  height,  which  rises  above  the  high  altar  of  St.  Peter's 

^pillaged  from  the  old  Soman  Pantheon,    ^d  Uie 


a 


366 


THE    rOOT-PBINTS  C?  SATAN. 


beautifd  porphyrj-  urn  which  adorned  Its  portico  now 
embellishes  tho  gorgeous  chupel  of  St.  John  Lateran. 
The  house  of  AU  Saints  at  Eome  Papal  was  once  the 
house  of  All  Gods  (the  Pantheon)  of  Rome  Pagan. 

The  "Holy  Chair,"  which  used  to  be  brought  out  and 
exhibited  to  the  gaze  of  the  admuing  multitude  on  the  day 
of  its  festival  (Jan.  28th)  was,  on  one  of  those  occasions  (in 
1662)  discovered  to  be  covered  with  heathenish  and  ob- 
scene carvings,  representing  the  doings  of  Hercules.  And 
iiot  thinking  this  exactly  complimentary  to  the  taste  of  St. 
Peter  in  the  selection  of  his  chair,  the  parties  concerned 
have  since  suffered  it  to  repose  quietly  in  the  chancel. 
So  much  for  the  pagan  origin  of  this  famous  relic. 

But  this  famous  chaur,  it  seems,  has  been  allowed  to  tell 
another  tale  of  the  common  brotherhood  of  false  religions. 
We  are  not  only  able  to  trace  so  near  a  connection  be- 
tween Eome  Papal  and  Rome  Pagan  that  we  feel  no  dif- 
ficulty in  taking  the  one  as  the  legitimate  successor  of 
the  other,  but  we  discover  to  our  further  surprise  (if  Lady 
Morgan's  account  of  St.  Peter's  chair  be  relied  on)  that 
Rome  and  Mecca  have  a  nearer  relation  than  had  been 
supposed.  From  our  Lady's  account  (in  her  book  on 
Italy)  it  would  seem  that  an  old  carving  was  found  on  it 
when  subjected  to  a  sacrilegious  examination  in  the  days 
of  Napoleon— an  inscription  to  this  effect,  "  There  is 
BUT  ONE  God,  and  Mohammed  is  his  Prophet."  The 
very  creed  of  the  Mussulman,  and  a  very  befitting  one  to 
appear  on  the  chief  seat  of  the  Papal  Beast. 

If  our  position  be  correct  that  Popery  is  the  summa- 
tion and  concentration  of  all  past  systems  of  error  and 
religious  delusion,  modified  and  suited  to  the  times— the 
master-piece  of  the  Devil,  then  this  symbolical  connec- 
tion with  Islam  and  the  old  Pagan  worship,  is  as  we 
should  expect.  Believing  as  we  do  that  the  true  Temple 
id  built  of  miiterials  collected  from  all  bygone  systems 


THE  EOIFTUN  WTTHOMOI.  367 

Md  experienoes-fcom  aU  the  right  and  the  good  of  the 

past  going  m  to  make  up  the  one  true  Temple  Id  t^ 

™dxc,te  the  immortahty  of  the  good  andX  ri^y  ^ 

we  beheye  we  are  to  look  for  a  corresponding  snmmat  o^ 

and  concentration  of  the  ways.  meL,  mfteSluS 

modes  of  workmg  employed  by  oar  great  adve^arv  in 

the  stupendous  work  of  false  religions.    His  systeSo^ 

a.e^ro,.^„„^acoumulative.-Sl  past  systems  rlp^:* 

Ttion     ""'""'  ""*  '^'"^'.'^  <fca^.  1^  oonsSm. 

Indeed,  the  traveller  in  Borne  is  at  once  struck  with  the 

tte  old  Pagan  mythology  of  ancient  Eome.    Pope^U 

hWe  more  than  old  Eoman  Paganism  in  a  new  d7e^ 

Yet  we  concede  that  the  erro»  of  Romanism  IreTt 

•absolute  falsehood,  but  corrupted  tenths."    Sr  rither 

the  principal  delusions  which  have  at  different Tmes 

e«rc«ed  a  pernicious  influence  over  humantty  t^' 

omided,  not  on  absolute  falsehood,  but  on  misconceived 

and  perverted  truths."  and  therefore  are  dese^nJof 

commiseration  as  well  as  blame  "serving  of 

n.i^'?'  ^"?  ■nytiology  is  made  to  contribute  its 
quota  to  adorn  the  Pantheon  of  Papal  Eome  and  Z 
mke  up  the  number  of  its  gods.    The  moon  we  °^ow 
was  the  principal  emblem  of  the  mother  god  oTw' 
Hence  we  meet  the  Papal  goddess  (the  Vir  Jn)  plSn 
tte  windows  of  Eomish  cathedrals  standing  onTe  IT 
The  tt,pers  too,  burnt  before  Eomish  altars,  had,  frorTe 
^hest  times,  been  used  to  Mght  up  the  sp  endor  0I 
Egyptian  altars  in  the  darkness  of  their  temples.    ]^om 
the  same  source,  too,  was  derived  the  custom  of  mZ 
the  crown  of  the  head,  -vhich  the  Egyptian  priest^ T^ 
ticed  oenturi^  before  the  religion  oYsome'^astnor 

among  the  very  degraded  Pagans  of  Guinea,  supposes 


mi  I 

I 


368 


THE  POOT-PBINTS  OF  SATAN. 


"  the  Romanists  must  be  the  most  successful  missionaries 
among  them  on  account  of  the  near  resemhlanoe  of  Roman- 
ism to  the  religion  of  the  people  of  Guinea.  They 
agree  with  them  in  several  particulars,  especially  in  their 
ridiculous  ceremonies,  in  their  abstinence  from  certain 
kinds  of  food  at  certain  times,  and  in  their  reliance  on 
antiquity  and  the  like."  The  Negroes,  however,  seemed 
to  take  a  more  common-sense  view  of  the  matter,  judg- 
ing that  "  so  swioK  a  change  was  not  worth  the  maldng." 

Or  we  may  say  Romanism  assimilates  to  Deism  in  its 
avowed  denial  of  the  supreme  authority  of  revelation ;  to 
Mohammedanism,  in  its  resort  to  force  to  propagate  itself 
and  extend  its  dogmas ;  and  to  Paganism,  in  its  idolatry 
and  the  gorgeousness  of  its  worship. 

Again,  the  corruptions  of  Judaism  have  contributed  no 
inconsiderable  share  to  the  Papacy.  Like  the  Papists, 
the  Jews  do  not  approve  of  a  man's  reading  much  of  the 
Bible,  because  it  may  lead  him  to  speculate.  They  say 
the  Rabbinical  commentaries  are  as  much  as  is  proper 
for  the  people  to  know.  Who  does  not  discern  the  pro- 
totype of  the  Papacy  here  ?  and  the  footprints  of  the 
great  deceiver  in  both  ?  Jesuitical  casuistry  is  as  much 
a  feature  of  modem  Judaism  as  of  Popery.  Both  systems 
are  pervaded  by  a  spirit  of  craft,  selfishness  and  spiritual 
tyranny. 

Popery  is  Gentile  Rabbinism— makes  traditions  at 
least  of  equal  authority  with  the  Bible,  and  makes  the 
Church  the  expounder  of  both.  Ahsolutim  is  a  doctrine 
of  perverted  Judaism.  All  obligations  were  solved  on 
the  great  day  of  atonement.  Improving  on  this  the 
Romish  priest  can,  for  money,  absolve  from  all  sins  past 
and  grant  indulgence  for  all  sins  in  the  future. 


■  '  '"h^>:.    ; '  '  -  '■' 


to 


xvn. 

FALSE  EELIGIOTSr<^      /n 

^xjxmujN  &.— (Continued.) 


POPERY    THE    GREAT    OOUNTERKJIT-great    an,r^ 

BOME  HAS    PRESERVED  YEtT^^^      ^'^^  ™^= 
imima>  LARGELY  TO  Sp^Y  ''^'^^'''    ^^^- 

Bot  we  must  not  overlnnl-  «.  «  i  i 
iritt  certain  ereat  LZlV^.^     "^  *"  <''^'  Borne 
features  oraS^Ji^!:'  'j"*'.'""'  ««'»!»  e^ntial 
and  n>ortaI  ™i^s^2  ""  'P"*  "'  ""  1^«  '"d 

able  heapofrlb^Xha  Xr2r  ^^^"^^■ 
thespirit.  Andwhati8qmJwor^!„7w'™°"'^"°* 
preserved  some  hnitlm  ;„  „.   T     7^      °°''°®'  ^oi^e  has 

«.e  counterfeit  "  soLSst.ndrr'^"^*'""  °' 
than  those  of  the  real  met^  ''^  """*  P*'*^'" 

pa^c^rst  "CiZl^r.^  «"''"'-'"«  --of  the 

Lths  and  o:r.int  :*  ctr«x^i:,^ltirot^^'" 

*«ve  appUed  to  her  as  (he  great  CodsiebpeiSp  of  Chrisu! 

84 


870 


THE  FOOT-PBINTS  OP  SATAN. 


Nor  need  we  confine  our  remarks  to  Borne.    Other 
false  religions  exhibit  unmistakable  traces  of  revealed 
truth,  which,  like  diamonds  in  huge  heaps  of  rubbish,  lie 
dormant  and  powerless,  but  stand  as  so  many  lights 
shining  (though  dhnly)  in  dark  places.    To  rescue  and 
burnish  and  reset  in  the  diadem  of  truth  these  fragment- 
ary gems  is  the  work  of  an  aU-renovating  Christianity. 
The  work  of  the  missionary,  philosophicaUy  speaking,  is 
not  so  much  to  introduce  new  ideas  into  the  mind  of  the 
heathen  as  to  revive  and  correct  old  ones— to  remove  the 
rubbish  by  which  sin  and  ignorance  have  buried  from 
sight  the  original  truths  on  which  the  given  system  is 
built— to  tear  away  the  hay,  wood  and  stubble,  and  re- 
produce the  silver,  gold  and  precious  stones  of  pristine 
truth.    They  know  God,  yet  serve  him  not  as  God. 
They  have  their  saviours,  atoners— substitutes— mediators 
many.    The   idea    of    sacrifice  and    atonement  is  rife 
among  them,  but  aU  perverted.    They  beUeve  in  the  na- 
tive depravity  of  man— the  necessity  of  another's  right- 
eousness to  be  set  to  their  account— in  a  state  of  future 
reward  and  punishment— m  all  the  fundamental  truths  of 
our  reUgion.     Yet   practicaUy  they   ignore  the  whole. 
Through  the  excessive  bhndness  of  their  minds  they 
have  totally  perverted  the  ways  of  the  Lord. 

The  idea  of  sacrifices  and  burnt-offerings— notice  of 
a  universal  deluge— the  recognition  by  Pagans,  Moslems, 
and  Christians  of  every  name,  of  Abraham  as  the  great 
man  of  the  whole  reUgious  world,  and  the  universal  honor 
that  has  been  accorded  to  Moses  and  the  prophets,  are 
foot-prints  in  the  deserts  that  no  moral  siroccos  have  ever 
been  able  to  obliterate.  And  yet  more  remarkable  is  the 
general  adoption  of  the  divisim  cf  tirm  into  weeks.  From 
the  Christian  nations  in  Europe  to  the  Chinese  Sea, 
including  Egyptians,  Greeks,  Chinese  and  Romans,  we 


TBiOES  OF  THE  TBOE  EKUQION. 


871 


taiceat  least  .traditional  connection  with  the  teuere- 

In  Ma  the  division  of  time  into  weeis  has  all  alone 
been  observed.  The  nomenclature  of  the  days  is  detiZ 
from  the  names  of  the  sun,  moon  and  planete,  eLcZ^ 
TsaS;*!.  '  """^t"""^.  However,  of  'the  sel2 
lost  Y^  "  T"^^  ^^  °'  "«'■  •""»  been  completely 
stnpped  of  ^  wh.ch  sm  and  Satan  would  have  expuLed. 

^™  r^W     ,."'^"^™''  ""''««'»'«  't    "Poganism," 

Zst™!^^f ' ,'  "  "  r""'™^  ^^P'^^""  "'  the  earnest, 
awestruck  feehngs  of  man  towards  the  universe  "-Pa- 

gamsm  emblemed  chiefly  the  operations  of  nature,  the 

efforte,    vicissitudes,    combinations   and   destinies  of 

thinp  and  men  in  the  world."    While  "Christ^" 

The  one  for  «ie  sensuous  nature,  the  other  for  the  moral 
Indeed  we  shall  discover  traces  of  the  true  rehgionr^: 
^g  through  aU  the  turbid  streams  of  idolatiy  *^SeT 
shtuhon  of  sacrifice  for  sin,  for  example,  as  prltic^d  fiSt 
m  Eden  and  thence  down  through  all  after  generations 
prefiguring  flie  great  reaUty,  was  doubtless  a  positive!: 

rfll^r  ""  ""*  "  '""*'*•  "^  ■"'"'y  ™PP°-.  »f  " 
But  it  is  more  especiaUy  to  Eomanism  that  we  would 
bok  for  our  illustrations.  Let  us  first  trace  som!  otZ 
^eat  truths  incorporated  in  this  colossal  system  of  error 
"bl^t  •         ^"^  «^»  tow  they  are 'perverted  and 

JT^'T'T  F^^^*^  ^  '^'"  ^  the  honor  (hey  give  to  the 
Head  of  the  ChurcL  He  is  worthy  of  all  hon^of  su! 
preme  reverence,  and  untiring  service.  He  is  infalUble. 
But  they  g^evously  mistake  in  putting  a  man  in  the 
place  of  God,  and  of  honoring  and  ser^g  the  creature 


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THE    FOOT-PRINTS  OP  SATAN. 


and  not  the  Creator.  Too  much  importance  cannot  be 
attached  to  the  idea  of  headship  in  the  Church.  And 
having  put  the  crown  upon  the  right  head  we  cannot  bow 
at  his  feet  too  submissively  or  ascribe  to  him  too  ecstatic 
praise.  And  here  we  discover  the  true  foundation  for 
the  infallibility  of  the  head  of  the  Church.  No  Church 
holds  this  doctrine  more  firmly  than  the  Romish,  yet 
wickedly  ascribes  to  a  fallible  man  what  belongs  only  to 
the  infallible  God.  Christ  has  been  constituted  the  head 
over  all,  supreme,  infallible  ;  God's  Vicegerent,  Lawgiv- 
er, King  and  Judge.  How  skillfully  and  adroitly  has  he 
been  counterfeited,  whether  it  be  Pope,  Grand  Lama,  or 
the  Prophet  of  Mecca. 

n.  TM  InfoUMity  of  the  Church,  and  Ahsolutionhj  the 
priest,  are  not  so  much  errors  as  perverted  truths,  retained 
more  distinctly  by  the  Romish  Church  than  by  the  Pro- 
testant. Truth  is  infallible.  The  true  Church  is  rooted 
and  grounded  on  the  truth,  and  just  so  far  as  she  is 
a  living  demonstration  of  the  truth,  she  is  infallible.  The 
error  lies  in  predicating  of  a  corrupt  or  partially  sancti- 
fied Church,  what  is  true  only  of  a  perfect  Church.  And 
of  the  much  abused  dogma  of  absolvtion  it  is  a  delightful 
truth  that  the  priest  or  the  minister  of  Christ  may  de- 
clare sms  forgiven  to  all  who  truly  repent  and  believe. 
And  no  doubt  it  is  the  privilege  of  Christ's  ministers  to 
attain  to  that  skillfdness  in  divine  things,  that  discrimi- 
nation in  "  discerning  spirits  "  that  he  may  declare,  not 
in  his  own  name,  but  in  that  of  his  Master,  that  the  sins 
of  this  or  that  man  are  forgiven.  Apostolic  faith  shall 
bring  back  apostolic  gifts  and  graces. 

in.  The  Romish  Communion  has  retained  the  only 
appropriate  a^)pella.ti(m  of  the  Christian  Church :  the 
Holy,  Catholic,  Apostolio  Church.  She  claims  what 
the  true  Church  of  Christ  has  a  right  to,  catholicity,  apos- 
tolicity,  sanctity,  unity,  unchangeableness.    As  the  body. 


A  RELIGIOUS  CENTRE. 


373 


shaU  become  like  its  infallible  head  it  shall  show  forth 
these  characteristics,  beautiful  as  Tirzah,  comely  as 
Jerusalem  and  terrible  as  an  army  with  banners.  What 
Rome  ctaiim  to  be,  the  true  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  shaU 
be. 

IV.  Another  interesting  feature  of  the  true  religion 
which  Eome  has  retained  even  more  perfectly  than  Pro- 
testantism, is  the  idea  of  one  great  local  Centre.    This 
seems  a  dictate  of  natural  religion-(or  perhaps  matter 
of  very  early  revelation)-which  has  met  a  very  ready 
response  in  the  economy  of  nearly  aU  forms  of  rehgion. 
Different  systems  of    Paganism  have  their  centres. 
The  Idolatrous  Arabs,  before  the  reform  of  Mohammed 
had  their  Kaaba  and  the  Black  Stone,  the  Mohammedans 
their  Mecca,  Brahminism  its  Benares.    The  Magians 
had  their  great  Fire  Temple,  and  the  worshippers  of  the 
Grand  Lama  made  the  place  of  his  throne  the  great  rally- 
mg  pomt  for  half  the  population  of  the  globe.    And  more 
conspicuously  than  all,  Rome  is  the  grand  centre  of  the 
Papacy      The   Pope,   St.  Peter's,   the  Vatican,  reUcs, 
samts,  the  Holy  Virgin,  severaUy  and  jointly,  make  up 
the  great  rallying-point  of  Romanism. 

Mecca,  the  present  centre  of  Islamism,  was  a  great  re- 
ligious centre  generations  before  the  world  had  ever 
heard  of  Mohammed.    Perchance  the  Sabians  worship- 
ped there.    There  was  the  famous  Black  Stone  and  the 
well  Zemzem,  about  which  for  centuries  bowed  the  con- 
legated  tribes  of  Arabia,  and  over  which  in  time  arose 
the  celebrated  Kaaba,  the  oldest  fragment  of  the  misty 
past.     The  same  time-honored  and  temple-consecrated 
spot  remained  a  great  religious  centre,  remodeUed  and 
reconsecrated  by  Mohammed,  towards  which  180,000  000 
of  souls  stretching  over  two  continents,  from  the  Chinese 
Sea  to  the  Atlantic,  bowed  their  faces.    Here,  from  the 


874 


THE  FOOT-PRINTS  OF  SATAN. 


remotest  regions  of  Islamism,  multitudes  annually  con- 
gregate as  to  the  great  centre. 

Jerusalem  was  the  centre  of  Judaism.  Mount  Zion, 
the  Temple,  the  visible  ShekinaH,  was  the  grand  centre  of 
the  Jews'  dispensation.  All  faces  were  turned  towards 
the  Holy  City.  Every  Jew  must  go  up  to  Jerusalem  to 
worship.  The  fact  is  significant  that  the  great  Lawgiver 
should  give  so  decided  an  importance  to  Jerusalem  as  a 
local  centre  of  a  dispensation  which  in  an  important  sense 
he  made  a  model  dispensation.  It  would  seem  to  indi- 
cate that  the  religious  instincts  which  led  all  ancient  sys- 
tems of  religion  to  such  a  choice  were  innate  and  right, 
and  worthy  to  be  imitated.  And  we  have  here  more 
than  an  intimation  that  that  higher,  holier,  more  expan- 
sive and  more  diffusive  dispensation  of  grace  for  which 
we  look  and  which  we  believe  hastens  on  apace,  shall 
have  its  grand  centre  in  kind  like  the  Jerusalem  and 
Mount  iZion,  and  the  Holy  Temple  of  its  illustrious 
prototype,  but  in  degree  vastly  more  splendid  and 
worthy  of  the  highly  exalted  and  glorious  dispensation  it 
shall  represent. 

The  grand  centre  towards  which  all  true  religion  tends, 
and  about  which  it  must  finally  revolve,  is  the  Cross — 
the  great  centre  of  attraction ;  some  tending  thither  by 
affinity,  some  by  repulsion — repelling  from  themselves  all 
which  will  not  in  its  nature  be  attracted  towards  the 
great  centre ;  the  attractive  power  of  divine  love ;  the 
centre  Christ,  love  personified.  All  that  is  true  in  re- 
ligion is  susceptible  of  attraction.  The  true  gold  of  piety 
— the  gems  of  the  moral  firmament — are  the  sparkling 
stars,  shedding  their  borrowed  yet  brilliant  light,  and  re- 
volving about  the  Sun.  Towards  it  aU  hearts  look — 
about  it  the  whole  spiritual  universe  revolves — system 
about  system — the  less  about  the  greater,  but  aU  about 
the  Grand  Centre. 


IBB  NEW  JIBUSALEll.  375 

But  we  mean  more  than  this.    We  mean  that  Ohri« 

earth  m  ila  millennial  glory,  and  our  glorious  King  shall 
roign,  shall  haye  its  visible  centre;  that  Jerusalem  shaU 
become  the  ^and  Metropolis  of  the  new  Kingdo^-  tha 
he  Jews  shaU  repossess  the  land  which  was  given'them 

Lll"  Tt''-^  '■'•■«ri"'n»;  that  theHd^Cty 
shall  be  rebuilt  in  proportions  and  grandeur  before  u^ 
known,  and  the  Temple  shall  arise  on  Mount  ZionIL 

witr  jts"t?'°"'™T''"'™'  »""•    ^j""  JefZlem 
was  to  the  Jews  this  new  Jerusalem  shall  be  to  the  whole 

ttet  an  r  "^'Z"  "P-  ■"  ''"'^'  ''y  tteir^epresenta- 
wl  ,  »"l'«».«"'J  nations  to  Jerusalem  to  worship 
We  believe  the  simple  announcement  of  Zeohariah  thS 
all  the  famihes  of  the  earth  shall  come  up  unto  Jerusa 
lem  even  from  year  to  year,  to  worship  The  King  the 
Lord  of  hosts,  and  to  keep  the  feast  of  Tabernacles  " 

K^ Ir  T  ^''*"''''  K'-'^S  descriptions  of  the 
Holy  Ci  y  yet  to  arise,  and  of  the  magnificent  Temple 
that  shal  be  the  glory  thereof,  and  of  the  glory  of  the 
worship  to  be  performed  there ;  and  the  bcLy  of  hou! 
ness  that  shaU  dwell  there,  shall  all  be  realized  in  thL 

^nl  T  V.'  "^''^r-J  ^''PO'ition  of  the  ways  and 
works  the  honors  and  spoils,  the  virtues  and  graces  of 
Chnstianity  m  the  glory  of  its  highest  earthlf  perfec- 
shTn  b  T  *"";.^»«  conception  of  what  Jerusalem 
ShaU  be  in  the  earlier  generations  of  that  indefinitely 
fong  penod  called  the  MiUennium,  when  the  riches  of  «.e 
Gentiles  shall  flow  into  it  and  kings  shall  bring  their 
gold  and  incense.    Who  can  conceive  the  beauty  and 

ments  of  but  a  smgle  generation  ?  But  add  to  this  a  thous- 
and years-perchance  Myriads  of  year»-and  look  again 
upon  the  Holy  City,  after  that  the  silver  and  the  gold  and 


i'      I 


876 


THE  rooT-rniNTS  or  satan. 


labor  and  the  skill  of  a  renovated  world  are  laid  at 
the  feet  of  the  Great  King,  and  the  possessors  thereof 
vie  with  each  other  for  the  honor  of  adoring  the  plaoe 
where  his  presence  and  glory  more  especially  dwell. 

But  we  may  not  stop  here.  Not  only  shall  the  con- 
secrated nations  and  tribes,  in  the  highly  exalted  condi- 
tion of  the  Millennial  state  of  the  Church,  have  their 
great  centre  of  holy  influences  and  more  exalted  privi- 
leges, where  Emanuel  more  especially  dwells,  which 
we  have  called  now  Jerusalem,  the  city  of  the  Great 
King,  but  there  shall  follow,  after  a  short  and  most 
eventful  era,  (the  last  death-struggle  of  the  Foe,)  the 
future,  final  and  everlasting  reign  of  the  saints  upon  the 
earth.  "Such  as  be  blessed  of  him,  shall  inherit  the 
earth."  "The  righteous  shall  inherit  the  land  and 
dwell  therein  forever."  "The  meek  shall  inherit  the 
earth." 

And  when  the  King  shall  appear  in  his  consummated 
glory ;  when  in  the  midst  of  ten  thousand  times  ten 
thousand  angels,  and  of  the  countless  multitudes  of  the 
redeemed  from  Adam  to  the  last  soul  converted,  he  shall 
appear  and  take  the  Mediatorial  throne,  where  shall  be 
his  footstool  ?  where  his  abode ;  where  the  place  of  his 
throne  ?    Be  it  that  his  glorious  presence  blesses  every 
soul,  in  the  remotest  regions  of  his  wide  domains,  yet 
is  there  not  a  grand  and  glorious  centre  ^     i  'vhich  ema- 
nate, as  rays  from  the  bun,  all  light,  all  1o         '  benefi- 
cence ?  Is  there  not  a  place  of  his  thro^  _     .  piuv-e  of  his 
abode  ?    And  as  this  Mediatorial  kingdom  is  an  earthly 
kingdom,  has  it  not  an  earthly  Metropolis  ?    In  har- 
mony with  this  idea  John  saw  the  new  Jerusalem  come 
£..'>;,)  heaven.    It  was  the  heavenly  state  come  down   to 
Cti  "'h     It  was  the  earthly  Jerusalem  made  heavenly — 
a  ti\>  p  bode  for  angels — for  the  spirits  of  just  men  made 
perfect — a  fit  abode  for  the  great  King.    Then  most  em- 


PnXlBIMAOE  A  TBUB  IDBi. 


877 


phatically  shall  Jerusalem  be  the  glory  of  the  whole 
earth. 

V.  It  may  be  inferred,  from  what  has  been  said  of 
centres,  that  pilffrimage  is  a  true  idea,  the  dictate  of  a 
high  order  of  piety,  most  sadly  perverted  and  made  tho 
source  of  untold  evils  by  nearly  all  false  religions,  yet  an 
Idea  preserved  by  them  more  correctly  than  by  the  true 
religion.    The  devout  Jew  turned  his  face  towards  Jeru- 
satem,  the  city  of  his  God,  and  longed  to  set  his  foot  on 
the  sacred  soil  where,  amidst  all  the  symbols  of  his  re- 
ligion, he  might  bow  in  the  holy  Temple.     With  a  hke 
yearning  the  deluded  Moslem  sets  his  face  towards  Mec- 
ca and  feels  that  a  pilgrimage  thither  is  worth  the  toil  of 
a  hfetime.    The  Hindoo  looks  to  Benares  or  Jugger- 
naut as  the  great  point  of  attraction  and  centre  and  radi- 
atmg  pomt  of  all  his  superstitious  fancies.    In  the  prac- 
tice  Itself  there  is  couched  an  interesting  truth,  but  when 
perverted  in  the  service  of  superstition  it  is  the  source  of 
unmitigated  evil.    There  is  scarcely  a  practice  among 
the  heathen    that  brings  with  it  more    suflfering,  de- 
moralization and  death.    While  on  the  other  hand,  some 
of  the  highest,  purest  aspirations  of  the  Christian  soul 
might  dictate  a  visit  to  the  great  central  temple  of  the 
God  he  worships.    As  Jerusalem  shall  again  become  the 
great  centre  and  metropolis  of  the  true  religion~-as  "  the 
law  shall  go  out  of  Zion  and  the  word  of  God  from  Jeru- 
sa  em,"  all  who  honor  God  and  love  the  ways  of  Zion, 
will  long  to  bow  down  in  the  Great  Temple  with  their 
kindred  m  Christ  from  the  remotest  regions  of  the  earth, 
and  to  offer  the  sacrifice  of  praise  upon  the  common  altar! 

VI.  Again  we  find  buried  beneath  the  grossest  super-    • 
stitions  and  idolatrous  regard,  another  truth.    We  mean 
a  prof ound  veneration  for  the  Church  and  the  priesthood. 
With  Romamsts  the  Church  is  everything  and  the  priest 
supreme.    There  is  no  sacrifice  so  burdensome— no  sin 


i 


878 


THE    FOOT-PRINTS  OF  SATAN. 


SO  heinous  that  the  Papist  will  not  commit,  if  satisfied 
that  thu  (Jhnrch  requires  it  or  the  priest  commands  it. 
He  would  sooner  violate  every  command  in  the  decalogue 
tliftn  to  eat  meat  on  Friday.  The  "  trfJitions  of  men  " 
are  everything,  tho  commandments  of  God,  if  in  conflict 
with  these,  are  nothing. 

Now  the  error  does  not  lie  in  too  great  an  honor  paid  to 
the  Church  and  the  priesthood.  If  the  Church  were  what 
she  should  be,  and  what  she  shall  be,  a  fac-simile — a  ve- 
ritable demonstration  of  the  truth  as  it  is  in  Jesus,  if  the 
priesthood — the  gospel-ministry,  were  perfect  patterns  of 
the  One  Great  High  Priest  and  Bishop  of  our  souls, 
such  homage,  such  veneration  would  be  altogether  suit- 
able and  right.  And  in  proportion  as  the  Church  and 
her  priesthood  approximate  their  destined  and  approach- 
ing perfection  they  shall  be  worthy  the  honor  supposed. 
The  error  lies  in  according  such  honor  to  a  Church  noto- 
riously coiTupt  and  idolatrous,  and  to  a  priesthood, 
which,  when  not  restrained  by  extraneous  powers,  has 
been  characterized  by  an  avarice,  ambition,  Ucentiousness 
and  cruelty,  which  has  made  them  a  reproach  and  a  by- 
word the  world  over.  The  Church,  when  she  shall  have 
gathered  within  herself  all  the  good  in  the  world  (which 
is  really  her  own)  and  repelled  all  the  bad  (for  which  she 
can  have  no  possible  affinity) — when  she  shall  be  con- 
formed in  Christ,  and  Christ  formed  in  her,  the  hope  of 
glory — when  she  shall  put  on  her  bridal  attire  and  appear 
as  the  Lamb's  wife,  she  then  shall  stand  forth  all  glorious 
and  worthy  of  all  honor. 

Vn.  Another  feature  which  the  Papists  have  preserved 
better  than  Protestants  is  the  Daily  Service  in  the 
church.  While  the  former  have  retained  the  form  (we 
cannot  say  the  spirit)  the  latter  have  scarcely  retained  it 
in  any  wise. 

Jewish  synagogues,  Heathen  temples,  and  Moham- 


THE  DAILY  SEBVICE  REYIVED. 


379 


medan  mosquos,  are  daily  open  for  worship.    This  is  at, 
It  should  be,  a  dictate  of  natural  religion~an  instinct  of 
the  pious  heart.    While  the  practice  in  the  spurious  re- 
hgions  referred  to,  does  little  but  to  keep  up  the  form  and  to 
bind  closer  the  bonds  of  superstition ;  among  the  devout 
worshippers  of  the  one  true  and  holy  God  it  would  be  a 
daily  recognition  of  obligations  for  mercies  past  and 
present,  a  time  for  daily  thanksgiving,  prayer  and  praise. 
a  demonstration  to  the  world  that  our  religion  is  not  casl 
sual,  not  occasional,  not  a  mere  form  or  prof  ssion,  or  the 
busmess  merely  of  a  Sunday,  but  that  it  is  a  practical, 
personal  e^;ery-day  matter-the  day  begun  with  God- 
C^od  pubhcly  recognized  as  our  Helper  in  all  that  day's 
aflfairs,  our  Guide  and  Shield,  our  Benefactor  and  Sa- 
viour. 

The  Daily  Service  was  a  marked  feature  of  the  Apos- 
tohc  and  early  Christian  Church.     They  assembled  daily 
not  only  for  prayer  and  praise  and  reading  the  word  of 
God,  but  for  "tLo  breaking  of  bread."    And  as  the 
Christian  Church  shall  return  to  her  primitive  simpUcity 
and  Practice-to  the  form  and  spirit  of  the  Apostolic 
Church   the  Dai^y  Service  will  no  doubt  be  revived. 
I^isis  the  monition  of  every  revival  of  religion,  the  dic- 
tate of  every  pious  s  ul.     We  see  an  incipiency  of  this 
practice  m  the  case  of  the  "  Protracted  Meetings  "  and 
yet  more  distinctly  in  the  Daily  Prayer  Meeting.     For 
filteen  years  that  "upper  chamber  "in  New  lork  has 
held  out  the  token  of  a  return  to  the  usages  of  the  primi- 
tive  Church.     And  the  few  other  meetings  of  a  like  cha- 
racter that  have  existence  in  other  cities  of  our  land  do 
but  cherish  the  idea  that  the  time  is  not  distant  when 
the  children  of  oiu:  common  Father  shall  assemble  them- 
selves together  to  seek  day  by  day  their  daily  bread  in 
the  place  of  prayer. 

Vni.    The  Papal  communion  has  with  much  truth 


880 


THE    FOOT-PiONTS  OF  SATAN. 


been  called  a  Church  of  mmjey.  Certain  it  is  that  no 
confederation  has  so  successfully  drawn  out  the  re- 
sources of  its  members,  or  so  adroitly  appUed  them  to 
her  own  exten'^ion  and  aggrandizement.  Money,  we  know, 
is  a  tremendous  power,  whether  for  good  or  for  evil. 
And  no  Church  has  realized  this  power  like  the  Bomish. 
She  has  secured  in  her  membership,  and  used  with  a 
vengeance,  what  the  Protestant  Church  has  failed  to  se- 
cure, and  what  she  sadly  suffers  for  the  lack  of,  viz.  a 
systematic,  universal  benevolence.  We  should  not  in  the 
case  of  Home  call  it  benevolence.  We  mean  the  giving^ 
and  the  always  giving,  of  the  whole  membership  to  sup- 
port the  Church.  The  rich  are  made  to  give  of  their 
abundance,  and  the  poor  as  surely  give  of  their  penury. 
The  poorest  servant-girl  monthly,  if  not  weekly,  divides 
her  scanty  pittance  with  the  Church.  The  secret  of 
Home's  enormous  power  lies  very  much  in  the  pecuniary 
treasures  that  have  been  put  at  her  disposal.  But  for 
money  her  tyranny  would  have  been  harmless.  With  it 
she  trampled  kings  under  foot  and  spoiled  kingdoms, 
and  rioted  in  blood,  and  tyrannized  over  nations,  .and  be- 
came the  mother  of'harlote  and  all  abominations.  Most 
signally  has  the  Devil  here  shown  what  money  can  do  to 
give  expansion  and  power,  and  aggrandizement  to  a  great 
system  of  despotism,  oppression  and  corruption.  The 
world's  history  does  not  afford  another  such  instance  of 
the  perversion  of  money. 

Yet  what  might  Bome  not  have  done  for  good,  had  her 
uncounted  millions  been  devoted,  not  to  the  support  and 
aggrandizement  of  a  great  and  corrupt  system  of  tyranny, 
founded  on  ignorance,  but  to  the  extension  of  that  king- 
dom of  love  and  hght  and  hberty  and  peace  and  purity, 
which  the  Blessed  Immanuel  came  to  establish.  It 
would  translate  the  Bible  into  every  language  on  the  face 
of  the  earth   send  a  missionary  into  every  city,  village 


MONEY  AND   THE    OHUBOH. 


881 


and  hamlet,  supply  a  school  for  every  youth,  a  library  for 
67617  town,  and  a  hospital  for  aU  the  sick  and  infirm  It 
would,  under  God,  establish  the  reign  of  peace  and  right- 
eousness on  earth.  ° 

What  Eome  has  failed  to  do  through  the  gross  perver- 
sion  of  her  means,  the  Protestant  Church  is  bound  to  do 
»he  must  then  call  out  her  resources  and  apply  them  for 
good.    It  IS,  in  the  aspect  we  are  now  considering  the 
work,  a  matter  of  mmey—oi  consecrated  wealth.    And 
here  we  scarcely  need  more  than  to  borrow  from  an  ene- 
my his  system  of  bringing  the  silver  and  the  gold  into 
the  treasury  of  the  Lord.    We  must  in  the  higher  and 
hoher  sense  of  the  term  be  a  Church  of  mmm,-oi  conse- 
crated  wealth.    Not  till  men  shaU  buy  and  seU  and  get 
gam  for  the  Lord-not  tiU  men  shall  consecrate  all  they 
have  to  their  divine  Master,  will  the  great  and  good  work 
of  raismg  the  lowly,  of 'enlightening  the  ignorant,  of  re- 
claimmg  the  wandering  and  restoring  to  life  them  wh- 
are  dead  m  trespasses  and  sins,  be  done.    Never  was  a 
time  when  the  cause  of  our  divine  Master  so  much  needed 
money. 

Having  stated  some  of  the  features  which  have  been 
preserved  more  distinctly  in  the  counterfeit  than  in  the 
true  Church-preserved  in  form,  though  sadly  perverted 
in  lact-we  now  turn  to  certain  other  resemblances  and 
connections  between  the  true  and  the  false,  which  will 
further  illustxate  how  largely  false  religions  have  drawn 
Irom  the  one  true,  ravealed  religion. 
^    Original  revelation  declared  the  one  true  God.    Pagan- 
ism appeared  as  its  corruption,  substituting  gods  many 
and  lords  many.    The  3econd  great  period  of  revelation 
announcmg  Immanuel,  God  with  us,  declares  the  one 
mediator  between  God  and  man,  the  one  advocate  and 
intercessor  before  the  eternal  Throne.    Eome,  in  com- 
mon with  false  rehgions,  substitutes  false   mediators 


!    1 


i, 

iJ! 


882 


THE  FOOT-PRINTS  OP  SATAN. 


Both  adopt  the  same  visible  signs  of  corruption,  the 
worship  of  images.  In  tracing  error  back  to  a  perver- 
sion of  the  truth,  some  one  has  said, "  Idolatry  originated 
in  the  perversion  of  the  doctrine  of  the  Godhead  and  the 
deification  of  their  fellow-men  in  the  natural  aspirations 
of  mankind,  laboring  under  the  effects  of  the  Fall,  after 
an  approachable  intercessor."  The  errors  of  the  heathen 
then,  were  eflforts  of  human  nature  "to  feel  and  find 
God,"  as  he  is  revealed  in  the  Scriptures.  The  triurie 
God,  discernible  in  the  multiplication  of  gods,  and  the 
incarnate  God,  in  the  deification  of  men  and  heroes. 

The  idea  of  incarnation  and  atonement  is  met,  though 
in  a  wretchedly  perverted  form,  in  most  false  religions — 
especially  in  the  modern  form  known  as  Eomanism,  and 
in  that  very  ancient,  long-continued,  far-reaching  and 
still  existing  system  known  as  Brahminism.  There  we 
meet  ten  well  recognized  incarnations,  and  atonements 
without  number. 

That  the  fundumental  notions  of  religion  were  at  an 
early  period  after  the  Deluge  carried  abroad  by  the  dis- 
persing tribes,  is  evident  from  the  fact  of  their  reappear- 
ance in  all  ancient  systems  of  mythology.  Though  mixed, 
confused,  and  buried  beneath  such  a  mass  of  historic, 
geographical  and  fabulous  elements,  yet  they  have  all 
retained  a  sufficient  amount  of  truth  to  indicate  the 
great  fountain  from  which  they  are  derived. 

Our  subject  finds  so  apt  an  illustration  in  the  following 
paragraphs  of  Dr.  Duff  that  we  do  not  hesitate  to  trans- 
fer them  to  our  pages. 

"  Of  all  the  systems  of  false  religion  ever  fabricated  by 
the  perverse  ingenuity  of  fallen  man,  Hindooism  is 
surely  the  most  stupendous — whether  we  consider  the 
boundless  extent  of  its  range  or  the  boundless  multi- 
plicity of  its  component  parts.  Of  aU  systems  of  false 
religion  it  is  that  which  seems  to  embody  the  largest 


BB.  BDIP  ON  SPDBIOUS  MMOIONS. 

amonnt  and  wriety  of  aerMances  and  convta-fmU  of  di- 
mndy  revealed  facts  and  doctrines.  In  this  respect  if  1- 
pears  to  hold  the  same  relation  to  the  primftive  paW 
arohal  fa.th  that  Eoman  Catholicism  doe^s  toZl  prim  ." 
t.™  apostoho  faith.  It  is  in  fact  the  Pope,-y  Z  SI 
y^narcU  OhriMWniiy.  All  the  ter™  Ld  S^a 
expressive  of  the  snblimest  truths,  originally  reveSed 
from  heaven,  it  still  retains.  And  nndfr  these  ilctn 
tnves  to  inculcate  diametrically  opposite  and  conta- 
djctey  errors.    Its  account  of  the  i„  anddJ^^L 

ttlZ  rr^i^"^^  "■"*  "^f^-'i^  to  which 
It  s  alternately  subjected-of  the  dwine  origin,  premd  sit 
fmness  and  final  dcMiny  of  tU  sM,  together  ZT2ly 
conjugate  and  subsidiary  statements,  must  be  regarfed 
as  embodying  under  the  corruptions  of  traditi™ 
the  exaggerations  of  fancy,  some  of  the  grandest  truths 
ever  communicated  by  the  Almighty  to  man,  wSer 
fee  °:i  I     'T  "'!,^"?'-    ''^  — -^a'-e  on  'tie  sub! 

it  nrZt  •*^'  "  f ""'  ""P'"™- '''''  '••'«■'  a-V^ied 

presents  us  with  nothing  better  than  an  infinite  nega- 

w™  l^'^n^^^'I  "J«»-=riP«ve  of  Uie  natural  atW- 
butTt  1  f '""  ®P'"'  «"P«abounds  to  overflowing, 
bu  It  evacuates  every  one  of  them  of  ahsdiU  i^fedil 

at  rt.  r  «*«7«»««»«».  though  constantirsubject, 
at  the  confluence  of  certain  cycles  of  time,  not  merely  t<^ 
alteration  of  plans  and  purposes,  but  to  change  of  e^ 
sence.  There  is  omnipotence,  but  bereft  of^creftivl 
energy  it  is  limited  to  the  power  of  education  and  fab- 
rication. There  is  omniscience,  but  it  is  restricted  to  the 
bnef  period  of  wakefulness,  at  the  time  of  manifesthg 

Again,  there  is  no  lack  in  false  reHgions  of  a  frag, 
mentary  evidence  of  a  belief  in  one  only  supreme  God. 


'  •    '  i 


384 


THE  FOOT-FBINTS  OF  SATAN. 


And  there  is  something  in  the  g&rge&us  ceremmidl  an^ 
external  forms  of  false  religions,  which  afford  glimpses 
of  that  beautiful  form  which  came  down  from  heaven. 
Indeed,  there  is  much  in  the  external  of  Eomanism  which 
would  seem  to  belong  to  the  Church  in  her  more  ad- 
vanced condition.  The  spirit,  the  soul  is  gone,  yet  beautiful 
forms  and  a  splendid  ritual— the  adornment  of  the  dead 
— this  external  beauty,  under  happier  auspices,  may  be- 
come the  type  of  that  awful  and  celestial  beauty  which 
pertains  to  the  pure  in  heart  and  dwells  in  its  perfection 
only  in  the  mind  of  God.  Their  Church  edifices  "  pos- 
sess a  wonderful  charm  for  their  fine  proportions  and  an- 
tique air."  Nor  must  we  forget  that  amidst  the  corrup- 
tions of  Bome  we  may  recognize  some  of  the  great  and 
all-transforming  elements  of  Christianity  —  like  stars 
mingled  with  clouds  and  gloom,  yet  stars  still. 

Indeed,  we  meet,  in  one  of  the  most  offensive  and  dan- 
gerous features  of  this  religion,  a  devotednesa  to  the 
Church,  a  self-denial — self-abnegation — a  consecration  of 
life,  money,  talent,  everything— a  oneness  of  idea  and 
purpose,  which  in  itself  is  altogether  worthy  the  imita- 
tion of  every  member  of  the  Christian  Church.  We  re- 
fer to  the  order  of  the  Jesuits.  They  have  the  right  idea, 
as  an  abstract  principle,  of  what  the  disciple  of  Jesus 
should  be.  Every  disciple  of  Loyola  stands  pledged, 
under  sanction  of  the  most  solemn  oath,  that  he  will  obey 
the  behests  of  his  Church,— that  he  will  favo;:  her  inte- 
rest, defend  her  honor,  contribute  to  her  aggrandizement 
by  a  full  and  unwavering  consecration  of  life  to  her  ser- 
vice. Were  it  a  service  done  for  Christ  and  his  Church 
with  a  pure  heart  and  a  good  conscience,  instead  of  a  de- 
votion to  Mary,  Peter  and  an  apostate  Church— were 
the  design  of  such  consecration  of  Ufe  to  enlighten  the 
ignorant,  reclaim  the  vicious,  preach  the  gospel  and  save 
the  souls  of  the  perishing— the  devotion  of  the  Jesuit 


DEVOTION  OP  JESUITS. 


386 


would  be  worthy  of  aU  praise  and  of  the  imitation  of  eve- 
ry one  calling  himself  after  the  name  of  Christ. 

The  Church  of  Borne  has  been  greatly  indebted  for  her 
extension  and  aggrandizement  to  the  crafty  and  unscru- 
pulous, untiring  devotion  of  this  famous  fraternity.    It  is 
the  lack  of  such  a  devotion— the  absence  of  a  high  and 
holy  consecrati6n  to  her  Divine  Master,  that  has  done 
more  than  anything  else  to  hmder  the  Christian  Church 
in  her  onward  march  to  the  conquest  of  the  world.    That 
high  order  of  consecration  which  nerved  for  her  mission 
the  Apostolic  Church,  and  gave  her  a  power  which  en- 
abled her  to  carry  the  good  tidings  of  the  gospel  to  the 
whole  known  world  in  about  thirty  years,  and  most  con- 
vmcingly  to  vindicate  to  the  world  her  claims  to  be  the 
One  Holy,  Catholic,  ApostoUc  Church,  subsided,  and  the 
Church  declined,  and  her  power  has  been  paralyzed, 
bhe  had  essayed  to  go  up  to  the  great  battle  for  the 
worlds  conquest,  and  failed  because  shorn  of  her  great 
strength. 

While  on  the  other  hand  the  Devil,  by  a  most  skillful 
monopoly,  has  secured  for  a  bad  cause  what  we  have 
failed  to  secure  for  a  good  cause.    Had  the  true  Church 
been  as  devoted,  as  thoroughly  consecrated,  asindefati- 
gabl^  active  for  truth  and  righteousness— for  the  exten- 
sion of  the  Church— the  salvation  of  souls  and  the  con- 
version of  the  world,  as  the  misnamed  order  of  Jesus  has 
been  to  bmd  men  in  the  chains  of  a  galling  despotism, 
Mid  debased  them  by  rites  and  superstitions  stolen  from 
Paganism,  this  apostate  world  would  long  since  have 
been  reclaimed  from  the  dominion  of  sin,  and  aU  tribes 
and  nations  been  given  to  Christ  for  an  everlasting  king- 
But  we  will  not  question  the  divine  plan.    As  God  has 
been  pleased  to  surrender  for  a  time  to  the  god  of  the 
world  the  powers  and  resources  and  elements  for  progress 

25 


886 


THE  FOOT-PRINTS  OF  SATAN. 


of  this  nudericS,  world,  that  it  may  be  seen  what  a 
wretched  business  he  can  make  of  it  all,  so  in  everything 
that  relates  to  the  apirittial  interests  of  man,  he  is  for  a 
time  allowed  a  predominating  control.  False  religions 
are  his  strongholds.  From  this  vantage  gromid  he 
wields  the  mightiest  weapons  of  his  power.  Ancient  Pa- 
ganism served  his  purpose  in  the  darker  periods  of  the 
world.  A  christianized  Paganism  is  made  to  arise,  to 
serve  the  same  purpose  in  an  enlightened  age  of  the 
world.  This  we  think  all  history  warrants  us  in  assuming 
to  be  "  the  masterpieoe  of  all  the  contrivances  of  the  Devil 
against  the  kingdom  of  Christ— <Ae  Anti-Christ " — "  a 
aummation  of  religious  error  " — a  compound  or  result  of 
all  previous  systems.  As  Paganism  was  the  counterfeit 
or  the  Popery  of  the  old  Patriarchal  religion,  and  Mo- 
hammedanism the  Popery  or  counterfeit  of  Judaism, 
Eomanism  is  the  Popery  or  counterfeit  of  Christianity— 
perhaps  the  perfection  and  climax  of  that  "  mystery  of 
iniquity,"  which  the  Arch-Fiend  is  allowed  to  practice 
among  the  sons  of  men.  Though  we  have  our  appre- 
hensions that  as  light  and  knowledge  and  true  piety  in- 
creases, and  the  Church  of  Christ  rises  and  expands  and 
takes  a  higher  level,  his  Satanic  Majesty  may  feel  the 
necessity  of  perpetrating  upon  the  world  his  final  grand 
counterfeit,  which  shall  serve  his  purpose  in  the  advanced 
and  rapidly  advancing  condition  of  the  world. 

Having  now  shown  how  largely  false  religions  are  in- 
debted to  the  one  true  revealed  religion  for  many  precious 
truths  which  have  existed  as  gems  amidst  huge  heaps  of 
rubbish,  we  shall  in  the  next  chapter  show  how  largely 
the  Papacy,  the  now  prevailing  counterfeit,  has  drawn 
from  Paganism.  In  other  words  present  the  Papal  sys- 
tem as  a  baptized  and  christianized  Paganism — a  new 
edition  of  the  old  book,  got  up  to  suit  the  times. 


\ 


xvm. 

FALSE  EBLIGIONS-KOMANISJt 


HOWm,EBm>TOPAQimaK-EE8mAL8-KO»KEBt     ■«,..., 
— OHAHJIS— IDOT.AT1.V       .,™_        """^"""KEBT— BOSiBI 

nnrrnrrr  '^^'^'^W— NO  BIBLE  —  PEBSB. 

Sin  beine  the  malftHv  o«^  .,     reveiation  of  sin. 

effica„,5the  J^Ltre^red*tr":f''  "'%'^ 
rerelation  of  (he  former    tI.iT"'*'"''"?'*^ 

into  respect^lrolL  Tr^^*''^/r«''°"  *^» 
of  the  work  n?  J,!l?      !      ^'™'  """^  "«'  completion 

windinK  ntTT tL         f^f "    ^""^  "^^  ""i  ^^^o"  the 


888 


THE  FOOT-PBINTS  OP  SATAN. 


circumstances  and  relations  in  life — ^how  evil  and  bitter 
a  thing  it  is — and  how  sui*e  it  is  to  meet  the  frown  and 
curse  of  Heaven.  Sin  must  be  revealed — ^and  must  show 
itself  the  son  of  perdition— the  great  destroyer,  and  sure 
to  be  destroyed. 

It  is  befitting  in  the  great  scheme— it  is  needful  that 
sin  should  have  its  perfect  development.  For  this  pur- 
pose sin  was  admitted  into  the  world,  and  its  chief  author 
and  agent,  the  Devil,  is  allowed  to  become,  by  usurpation, 
the  god  of  this  world.  This  world  should  first  become 
the  servant  of  sin,  that  it  might  be  seen  what  a  wretched 
world  sin  could  make  of  it.  And  then  should  it  become 
the  servant  of  God  and  of  righteousness  that  it  might 
appear  how  beautiful  a  world  it  shall  be  when  its  rightful 
owner  shall  restore  it  to  his  favor.  Sin  shall  first  have 
its  day.  Sin  shall  reign.  But  sin  shall  come  to  an  end 
and  righteousness  shall  enjoy  an  everlasting  dominion. 

We  propose  to  continue  our  notices  of  the  usurpations 
of  sin,  and  of  him  that  has  the  power  of  sin,  by  adducing 
a  few  instances  in  which  the  Papacy  is  largely  indebted 
to  Paganism.  And  this  to  an  extent  that  makes  its  sys- 
tem decidedly  more  Pagan  than  Christian.  In  doing 
this  we  hope  again  to  make  it  appear  what  a  cunningly 
devised  scheme  this  system  is,  and  what  a  tremendous 
power  for  evil. 

It  might  seem  to  suffice  to  speak  only  of  the  general 
analogies  of  the  Papacy  and  Paganism.  We  may  take 
Hindooism  as  a  specimen.  The  Christian  resident  in 
India  is  the  daily  witness  of  rites,  superstitions  and  cer- 
emonies practiced  by  Hindoos  which  are  known  to  have 
been  theirs  from  time  immemorial  yet  which  diflfer  only  in 
name  from  the  religious  observances  in  Home.  A  writer 
who  from  personal  observation  knew  well  of  what  he  af- 
firms, says,"  I  need  not  stop  to  point  out  to  the  intelligent 
leader  the  analogy  which  here  appears,  (he  is  speaking 


THE  PAPACY  AND  PAG^    ISM. 


S89 


Of  services  for  the  dead,)  and  the  many  striking  ana 
logies  which  will  be  seen  between  HindLsm  and  Po" 
perj.  The  Heat^ism  of  the  Papacy  is  aTbTect  th!ch 
deserves  vastly  more  attention  in%he  controvCsyt  J 
Eomanists  than  it  has  heretofore  received  T  ird  . 
^e  see  not  only  the  Idolatry  of  Popery  "self,  which  is 
everywhere  ma^iifest,  but  we  see  its  heathenisr  L  ite 

°'S^:;:?he  ;^^^^^^  "T'  "^^«^«  ^"^  BupersSnTy*^ 
Along  the  whole  Ime  of  existence  and  history  of  Borne 

Papal  we  meet  the  unmistakable  footprints^of  S^me 
Pagan.    Modem  Eomanism  is  strangely  grafted  on  Pa! 

rjrr''"^:  ^^  r^*  *^^  P^^^'  '^  Trajan  su^. 
mounted  by  an  image  of  St.  Peter-that  of  Antoninus 
Pius  by  a  statue  of  St.  Paul-a  fit  whim  of  old  Borne 
and  new-new  wine  in  old  bottles.  Many  a  hoary  nj 
of  an  old  hea  hen  temple  is  transformed  into  a  Christian 
wf  •  •^"Pi*^'  Capitohnu^the  old  statue  of  tC 
heathen  god,  has  been  lustrated  by  the  Popes  and  conse- 
crated mto  a  statue  of  St.  Peter.  The  Pope  is  none 
other  than  the  Pontifex  Marimus  of  the  old  Boman  my! 

Christ  an  churches-nuns  were  once  vestal  virgin*-the 

tio^of  r  '  .  p^  ^'*''  ^"*  "  perpetuation  of  the^lustra- 
hon  of  the  old  Boman  priests.  The  Pantheon,  the  place 
of  all  gods  becomes  in  the  new  order  of  Bomanism  the 
^ace  of  aU  saints.-  And  St.  Peter,  as  he  towers  aloft  in 
the  dizzy  height  assigned  to  him,  becomes  the  Jupiter  of 
the  Capitol.  The  worship  of  gods  and  heroes  has  simply 
given  place  to  the  worship  of  angels  and  saints,  and  the 
goddess  of  the  old  Bomans  has  yielded  to  the  virgin  or 
the  goddess  of  the  modern  Bomans. 

A  traveller  in  Italy  visits  the  church  of  St.  Paul  Major 
m  Naples,  and  says  of  it :  «  This  is  reaUy  the  old  temple 
of  Castor  and  PoUux  transformed  into  a  church.  There 
stand  the  old  pillars  of  the  heathen  temple.    Before  th© 


!■, 


8D0 


THIi  P00T-PRINT8  OV  8ATAN. 


\- 


door  is  the  statue  of  a  heathen  god  oonyerted  into  a  sta- 
tue of  St.  Paul.  On  either  side  of  the  great  door  and 
over  it  are  left  remaining  the  pictures  of  the  heathen 
priests  ofifering  sacrifices,  and  all  over  the  interior  of  the 
building  are  the  representations  of  heathen  mythology, 
mixed  and  mingled  up  with  the  representations  of  the 
myths  and  superstitions  of  Popery.  Priests  in  their  robes 
were  mumbling  mass  at  its  altars,  and  to  a  person  at  all  ac- 
quainted with  heathen  mythology,  with  Boman  antiqui- 
ties, and  with  the  way  uud  manner  of  the  worship  of  the 
old  ItaUans,  the  conception  on  entering  this  church  would 
be  neither  violent  nor  unnatural  that  he  was  in  a  heathen 
temple,  whose  altars  were  surrounded  by  heathen  priests, 
upon  which  they  were  offering  thtir  unmeaning  sacri- 
fices."* 

Were  an  old  worshipper  of  Castor  and  Pollux  to  rise 
from  the  Catacombs  and  enter  the  church  of  St.  Paul 
Major  at  Naples,  he  would  feel  that  although  great  revo- 
Intious  had  taken  place  in  other  things,  his  old  temple 
and  its  worship  were  yet  mainly  the  same.  Th6re  at 
least  were  the  holy  water,  the  burning  candles  and  the 
smoking  incense,  just  as  he  had  left.  them.  These  last 
are  among  the  things  "  received,"  as  Bishop  England 
concedes, "  from  the  East,"  and  adapted  and  baptized 
into  the  Bomish  succession.  The  grave  bishop  probably, 
conceded  more  than  he  really  intended,  when  he  said,  *'  As 
our  religion  is  received  from  the  JSaat,  most  of  our  an- 
cient customs  are  of  Easkrn  origin." 

Bomish  festivals  and  holy  days  are  the  natural-bom 
o£fspring  of  the  old  heathen  festivals.  The  character 
and  the  place  occupied  by  the  one  is  almost  entirely 
identical  with  the  other.  The  name  only  is  changed. 
This  identity  in    essence  and   character  will    appear 

*  Bomanjsm  at  Home.    Kinrau's  letters  to  Chief  Justice  Taney. 


If 


PAPAL  ITBSTIVAia  AND  HOLY  DAIS. 


891 


the  more  obvious  if  wo  advert  for  a  moment  to  the  man- 
ner m  which  these  modern,  nominaUy  Chriatian  feaUvala 
are  observed.    Their  heathen  birthright  will  at  once  be 
betrayed.    These  festivals  have  no  rdiyioua  character— 
nothmg  that  addresses  itself  to  the  heart  and  conscience 
and  makes  the  votary  feel  he  has  a  God  to  serve  and  a 
soul  to  save.    At  the  festival  of  the  resurrection,  (which 
we  may  take  as  a  single  iUustration,)  preachers  are  wont 
to  entertam  their  hearers  with  anything  which  might  ex- 
cite laughter.    One  relates  the  grossest  indecencies:  an- 
other  recounts  the,  tricks  of  St.  Peter ;  others,  how  adroit- 
ly, at  an  inn,  he  cheated  the  host  and  avoided  paying  hia 

A  Eomish  festival,  everybody  too  well  knows,  is  but 
a  holy  day~a  gala  day.    No  matter  how  serious  be  the 
occasion  which  is  nominally  celebrated,  it  is  a  day  of 
Tl  ?».^  «*y/««ti^itie8.    It  may  be  in  commemoration 
of  the  birth,  death  or  resurrection  of  Christ,  or  descent 
of  the  Holy  Spirit,  or  of  any  other  great  and  deeply-in- 
terestmg  event  in  the  history  of  the  Church-it  is  all  the 
same,  the  holy  day  and  its  festival  stirs  up  no  pious  emo- 
tions.  no  grateful  aspirations,  no  sense  of  true  worship 
AU  IS  form  if  not  frivolity.    Were  I  to  relate  to  a  com- 
pany of  Ignorant  papists,  the  frivolous  stories  retailed  by 
Mmdoo    priests   and  medicants  concerning  their  holy 
days  and  their  deities-the  amours  of  their  gods  and  the 
silly  tricks  of  Vishnu  among  the  cowherds-how  he  proved 
his  divmity  by  making  himself  invisible  that  he  might 
steal  tiieir  milk  unperceived,  and  other  naughty  tricks 
which  he  played  with  the  young  maidens  of  the  field  as 
they  innocently  tended  their  fathers'  flocks-should  I  re- 
late  these  thmgs  with  the  assurance  that  the  parties  were 
Bomish  priests  and  Eomanists.  my  hearers  would  have 
no  scruple  to  pass  it  all  as  good  Romanism. 
Christmas  is  evidenUy  a  festival  borrowed  from  the  old 


392 


THE    EOOT-PBINTS  OF  SATAN. 


Eoman  Saturnalia.  And  the  mode  of  its  observance  in  a 
real  Papal  country  is  as  yoid  of  all  religious  seriousness 
or  of  thoughts  or  observances  appropriate  to  the  day  that 
it  professedly  commemorates,  (the  glorious  advent  into 
our  world  of  our  Blessed  Saviour,)  as  is  the  grossly  fes- 
tive observance  of  the  old  Pagan  festival  whose  legitimate 
successor  it  is. 

But  we  have  a  yet  more  melancholy  perversion  in  re- 
lation to  the  Sabbath.  Here  our  enemy  has  achieved 
one  of  his  saddest  victoiies.  The  Sabbath  is  one  of  the 
strongholds  of  our  rehgion.  DemoUsh  this  and  the 
enemy  may  come  in  and  prowl  at  will.  Bome  has  made 
the  Sabbath  the  veriest  hohday  in  the  calendar.  Little 
is  left  to  entitle  it  to  the  epithet  of  sacred.  The  record 
of  a  single  traveller  in  France  furnishes  a  befitting 
commentary  on  this  sad  perversion.  Toting  from  Paris, 
where  he  was  an  eye-witness  of  the  things  whereof  he 
affirms,  he  says : 

"  On  the  Sabbath  day,  as  in  the  ancient  pagan  festival, 
the  devotee  of  superstition  desires  to  show  forth  his  glad- 
ness of  heart.  How  does  he  do  it  ?  Just  as  in  the  Sa- 
turnalia or  Lupercaha.  Hence  the  Sabbath  day  is  the 
fete  day  of  the  week.  Nearly  all  the  public  places  of  ex- 
hibition are  closed  on  one  day  in  the  week,  and  that  day 
is  Monday.  A  cause  is  that  the  porters,  etc.,  have  been 
entirely  exhausted  by  the  exertions  and  labors  of  the 
Sabbath,  when  tens  of  thousands  at  times  visit  them. 
One  br  two  hundred  thousand,  on  a  Sabbath  of  Septem- 
ber last,  stood  within  the  park  of  Yersailles  to  witness 
the  great  dragons  of  the  Fountain  pour  forth  their 
streams  of  water.  All  the  arrangements  of  the  week 
point  to  that  as  the  grand  hohday.  Have  the  theatres 
any  particular  star  to  introduce  to  the  pubUo  ?  a  Sabbath 
night  is  selected.  Have  the  restaurants  or  coffee-houses 
any  new  discovery  in  the  science  of  cookery  to  make 


BOMB  AND  THE  SABBiTH.  393 

too™  ?  the  Sabbath  is  selected.    Have  the  artisans  need 

seleoted  as  ^  J,  -mage""^ ^f  t^;^*^:^^ 
resteamed  hberiy  to  feast  and  froKo  on  the  ttd^" 
ttaftb?^  1  f^  "^^  '"^''-  g*™-"  °"  Saturday  nigW 

^^^e^TL^-rbn-d'S 

dTo'  tt  lT^'T""'  ''""'■""^  'o  'omeofff  &: 

as  the  devotee  desire^^^  ^"°'  '"'*  ""  *«'  ^P^"' 

Monks,  nuns  and  religious  orders  trace  back  their 

rentage.  In  reading  the  accounts  of  pagan  monkerr  Mid 
a^efac^m  m  Hindostan-how  at  some  periods  whSe^. 

twelve  thousand,  would  lay  under  contribution  whole 
"Uages-we  scarcely  know  whether  we  are  on  Pag^  or 
Papal  ground     •'  When  this  army  of  robust  sainte  dSeo 

IW  r'i'\'°/''^  '^""P"*'  '^«  •"«"  o'  the  prori^oe 
ttrough  which  their  road  lies,  very  often  %  befofIZm 

notw  thstandmg  the  B»nctified  character  of  the  ^'2 
But  the  women  ate  in  general  more  resolute,  and  noi 
oidy  remam  m  their  dwellings,  but  apply  frequeTuy  for 

most'^T?  °  ""''  ^"^^  ^'^'^'  *»^  ««  fo»^d  to  Z 
most  effectual  m  case  of  sterility.  When  a  Fakeer  fa  Tt 
prayers  with  the  ladv  of  ti,.  i,™„  v.  ,  .*.*'  "^  *' 


lady 


house  he  leaves  either  his 


394 


THB  VOOT-FBINIS  OF  SATAN. 


\nU 


slipper  or  bis  staff  at  the  door,  which,  if  seen  by  the  hus 
band,  effectually  prevents  him  from    disturbing   their 
devotion.    Should  he  be  so  unfortunate  as  not  to  mind 
these  signals,  a  sound  drubbing  is  the  inevitable  conse- 
quence of  his  intrusion." 

Is  the  reader  here  reminded  of  anything  in  the  religion 
of  Borne  like  this  ?  If  not,  let  us  revert  to  anothei  fea- 
ture of  Hindooism  and  see  if  we  can  discover  the  likeness. 
Every  principal  temple  in  India  has  attached  to  it  not 
only  as  large  a  number  of  priests,  monks  and  mendicants 
as  its  revenue  will  support,  but  a  corresponding  corps  of 
young  women  known  in  religious  parlance  as  wives  of  the 
gods,  but  in  common  parlance  as  dancing  girls  or  prosti- 
tutes. In  a  single  temple  (that  of  Jejury,  24  miles  south 
of  Ahmednugger)  there  were  at  one  period  250  of  these 
wives  of  the  gods.  Mothers  devote  their  daughters  to 
the  god  from  their  infancy,  and  when  the  girls  arrive  at 
a  marriageable  age  they  are  wedded  to  the  deity,  and 
afterwards  reside  at  the  temple  and  live  for  the  god,  and 
may  not  marry  a  mortal. 

What  say  you,  votaries  of  Bome — ^have  not  these  an- 
cient Pagans  anticipated  you  in  the  idea  of  nunneries  and 
convents  ?  Nor  have  you  in  your  other  religious  orders 
and  fraternities  done  more  than  to  revive,  perpetuate, 
modify  and  accommodate  to  times  and  places,  and  bap- 
tize with  Christian  names,  kindred  orders  of  Bome  pagan 
progenitors.  Pilgrimages,  penances,  bodily  inflictions  aiQ 
but  the  legitimate  offspring  of  their  pagan  prototypes. 

Here  I  may  quote  Bemier,  than  whom  few  writers  on 
India  are  more  worthy  of  credit.  His  description  of  yo- 
gees  is  much  to  the  life,  and  possesses  the  merit  of  exhi- 
biting the  manners  of  this  class  of  people  as  they  were 
two  centuries  ago,  and  as  they  now  are.  He  met  asceti- 
cism in  India  in  veiy  much  the  same  form  in  which  it  has 
80  luxuriantly  flourished  on  papal  ground.    Not  only  wa9 


/ 


CONTENTS,  BEADS,  BOSART.  395 

the  countiy  cursed  with  innumerable  bands  of  W 
worthless  mendicants  and  devotees  of  every  caste  S 
bnd,  but  institutions  existed  not  unlikeTon  e'^  ,1 
nunneries.    He  says,  "Among  the  infinity  and  great  d^ 

l7^.V7''r  "  '"^^'  *^^'^  ^-  numbersTho  t 
habit  a  kind  of  convent,  in  which  there  are  superiors 
and  where  they  make  vows  of  chastity,  poverty  3  obS 
dience,  and  who  Hve  so  strange  a  iJe  that' I  kTowno^ 
whether  you  wiU  believe  it.    These  a,e  commonl^ltb 
guished  by  the  ai,pellaiion  of  yogees,  a  great  numbe  ^f 
whom  are  to  be  seen  parading  about,  or  sitting  almost 
r.!!     '  T  ^yi^S^^^'^  ^ight  and  day  on  ashes,  and  gent 
rally  under  the  branches  of  large  trees" 
d^^V^  °-  beads-the  rosary-amulets  and  charms, 
date  their  origin  and  use  back  to  a  period  centuries  and 
centuries  anterior  to  their  adoption  by  the  Papacy.    Be- 
fore  Eome  was  known-either  pagan  or  papal-the  old 
Idolaters  of  Asia  sat  counting  their  beads,  wearing  the^ 
amulets  and  plymg  their  charms.    The  Hindoos,  the 
Chinese,  the  worshippers  of  the  Grand  Lama  and  the  fol! 

IhlTnl  .  T^^^^etians  use  beads,  wear  the  mitre,  use 
the  holy  water,  offer  prayers,  alms  and  sacrifices  for  the 
dead,  have  their  convents,  nuns,  priests  and  monks.  So 
completo  IS  the  resemblance  that  when  one  of  the  fi^" 
Eomish  missionanes  penetrated  Thibet,  he  came  to  the 
conclusion  (and  very  correctly  we  think;  that  the  Devil 
had  set  up  there  an  imitation  of  the  rites  of  the  Catholic 
of  r  '  ^°'^^'*^«  "»°^«  eflfectuaUy  todesi^oy  the  souls 
of  men.  The  conclusion  should  rather  be  that  the  priest 
here  discovered  the  footprinte  of  the  Devil  in  siniilar 
ntes  and  appendages  of  his  own  Church. 

"The  ffindoos  use  the  rosaiy  in  the  same  way  as  the 
MohammedauB  and  Papists  do.  The  custom  is  doubtles^ 
brought  from  the  East.    Nearly  every  devotee  there  car- 


396 


THE   POOT-PRINTS  OP  SATAN. 


nes  a  string  of  beads.  They  are  not  only  carried  in  the 
hand  and  used  as  a  rosary,  but  are  worn  on  the  arms,  the 
neck,  and  the  body  as  amulets.  I  have  seen  devotees 
nearly  covered  with  strings  of  beads.  The  Hindoo  rosa- 
Y  consists  of  a  hundred  and  eight  beads,  the  Mohamme- 
dan of  a  hundred  and  one."* 

"  Bepeating  the  name  of  some  one  of  the  gods  is  a  very 
common  mode  of  worship.  To  assist  in  this  exercise  a 
strmg  of  beads,  pearls  or  berries  is  used.  The  worship- 
per, by  removing  one  of  these  every  time  he  repeats  the 
name,  is  enabled  easily  to  reckon  his  prayers  and  know 
when  he  has  repeated  the  intended  number  of  repeti- 
tions. Some  people  spend  hours  in  this  practice."  This 
is  the  very  common  ceremony  among  the  Hindoos  called 
Jupu,  by  which  they  fancy  they  may  obtain  whatever 
they  desire. 

And  how  hke  the  devotees  of  Paganism  are  the  Papists 
in  then:  use  of  charms  and  amulets.  «  Amulets,"  contin- 
ues the  writer,  «  are  ahnost  universally  worn  by  the  Hin- 
doos for  the  preventing  or  the  curmg  of  diseases,  or  the 
drivmg  off  of  evil  spirits.  They  are  made  of  different 
materials  and  are  worn  about  the  arm,  the  neck  or  the 
body.  Some  consist  of  a  single  thread,  others  are  made 
of  leather  and  set  with  small  shells."  Does  not  the  Bo- 
mish  priest  in  India,  too,  discover  that  the  DevU  has  set 
up  another  imitation  of  the  rites  (rights)  of  his  Church  ? 

Somanism  in  India,  diffused  as  it  extensively  is  over  the 
whole  country,  does  not  offer  the  slightest  rebuke  to  the 
grossest  superstitions  of  the  country.  Though  modified 
in  some  of  its  forms,  and  names  changed  to  suit  the 
Christian  nomenclature,  it  is  in  spirit  and  practice  as 
superstitious  and  idolatrous  as  the  religions  of  the  land. 
The  image  of  the  Virgin,  as  also  the  images  of  saints,  is 

•  Christian  Brahmiuism,  voL  ii.,  p.  88,  90. 


i-i 


THE  MUNTBU. 


397 


borne  through  the  streets,  gorgeously  apparelled  and  seat- 
ed beneath  a  glittermg  canopy,  followed  by  an  army  of 
priests  and  of  the  people,  just  as  we  see  a  procession  of 
Hindoo  priests  and  people  paradmg  through  the  streets 
their  goddess.  And  so  we  may  say  of  their  charms,  in- 
cantations, and  all  their  catalogue  of  superstitions. 

We  alluded  to  holy  water,  incense  and  burning  candles 
as  among  the  things  wherein  Bome  may  claim  a  heredi- 
tary identity  with  oriental  Paganism.  Lights  were  kept 
perpetuaUy  burning  on  the  Pagan  altars  in  Eome  by  the 
vestal  virgins.  And  in  more  ancient  heathen  temples, 
lamps  and  candles  were  ever  burning  on  the  altars  and 
before  the  statues  of  their  deities.  Incense,  too,  was  al- 
ways offered  to  the  gods  from  Pagan  altars,  and  as  ap- 
pears from  the  sculpture  and  pictures  extant,  very  much 
in  the  manner  in  which  it  is  now  offered  in  Bomish 
churches— by  a  boy  in  a  white  robe  with  a  censer  in  his 
hand. 

And  the  use  of  holy  water  is  purely  a  heathen  custom, 
transferred  from  heathenism  into  the  Bomish  Church  for 
the  purpose  of  faciUtating  the  passing  over  of  the  heathen 
from  Paganism  to  Papacy.  What  at  first  was  a  matter 
of  policy  became  soon  a  matter  of  faith,  and  now  a  font 
of  holy  water  is  of  far  more  importance  to  the  complete 
finish  of  a  Bomish  church  than  a  Bible. 

As  an  example  of  this  we  may  refer  to  the  wonder- 
working charm  called  the  Muntru.  This  is  a  mystic 
verse  or  incantation,  the  repetition  of  which  is  declared 
to  be  attended  with  ihe  most  wonderful  effects.  The  su- 
perstitions and  consequent  ceremonies  connected  with 
the  Muntru  are  prominent  features  in  Hindoo  mythology. 
None  but  Brahmins  and  the  highest  order  of  the  people 
are  allowed  to  repeat  it.  Here  lies  the  power  of  the  priest. 
All  things  are  subject  to  the  Muntru.  The  gods  cannot 
resist  it.    It  is  the  essence  of  the  Vedas,  the  united  pow- 


i 


398 


!'  " 


THE  FOOT-PRINTS  OP  SATAN. 


is  § 
31 


er  of  Brahma,  Vishnu,  and  Shiva.  It  confers  all  aano- 
tity,  pardons  all  sin,  secures  all  good,  temporal  and  spiri- 
tual, and  procures  everlasting  blessedness  in  the  world  to 
come.  It  possesses  the  wonderful  charm  of  interchang- 
ing good  for  evil,  truth  for  falsehood,  light  for  darkness, 
and  of  confirming  ';  •  -.  T^Pnroi&ions  by  the  most  holy 
sanction.    Indeed  tL  nothmg  so  difficult,  so  silly, 

so  absurd  that  it  may  l^u  be  achieved  by  this  extraordi- 
nary Muntru. 

But  have  we  not  all  this,  in  spirit  and  essence,  repre- 
sented in  the  magic  word  of  the  Romish  priest  ?  to  say 
nothing  of  the  scarcely  less  magic  power  of  Ave  Marias 
and  Paternosters.  A  word  from  the  priest  absolves  from 
sin,  makes  wrong  right,  darkness  light,  falsehood  truth. 
We  find  the  whole  reproduced,  modernized,  Romanized, 
but  not  attenuated  or  essentially  changed,  in  modern 
Romanism. 

The  worship  of  canonized  Saints  and  of  Angels  is 
again  but  obviously  a  relic  of  the  old  idolatry.    "  Honors 
paid  to  rotten  hones"  says  Virgilantius,  " and  the  dust  of 
saints  and  martyrs,  by  adoring,  kissing  and  wrapping 
them  up  in  silk  and  vessels  of  gold,  and  lighting  up  waxen 
candles  before  them  after  the  manner  of  the  heathen,  were 
the  ensigns  of  idolatry."    The  chief  deity  among  the 
Romans  of  the  present  day  is  undoubtedly  the  Madonna 
or  Virgin  Mary;  no  more  or  less  than  a  canonized 
saint.    Indeed,  so  prominent  a  place  does  the  worship 
of  this,  their  goddess,  command  in  the  pantheon  of  the 
modern  Romans,  that  we  shall  be  doing  no  injustice  to 
the  whole  system  if  we  give  it  the  title  of  Madonnaism. 
Read  the  legends  of  the  Virgin,  (which  indeed  have 
more  authority  with  the  Papists  than  the  gospels,)  or  go 
into  their  galleries  of  art  or  into  the  churches  of  Italy 
and  you  find  the  Madonna,  exalted  and  glorified,  by  the 
so-called  church,  above  all  the  lords  and  gods  there  wor- 


ROME  PAGAN:  ROME  PAPAL. 


399 


flapped.    "It  IS  not  surprising,  then."  as  a  traveUer  in 
Italy    well  says,  "that  the  Madonna,  this   factitious 
Virgin  Mary,  a  divinity,  a  goddess,  an  object  of  worship, 
.and,  according  to  Protestant  ideas,  of  idolatrous  wor- 
ship,  inasmuch    as  adoration  only  belongs  to   God- 
should    be  the  trump  card  of   the  OathoUc  Church. 
The  image  of  the  Eternal  Father,"  says  an  acute 
traveller  m  Italy,  "indeed,  is  the  less  common  in  Italian 
Churches,  only  because.  I  apprehend,  he  is  less  the 
object  of  worship.    The  Virgin  io..beyond  all  compari- 
son, the  most  adored.    Particular  saints,  in  particlar 
places,  may  indeed  divide  with  her  the  general  homage, 
but  they  enjoy  at  best  only  a  local  and  sometimes  a 
transient  popularity ;  whereas  the  worship  of  the  Virgin 
IS  Wiversal  in  all  places  and  by  all  people,  not  only,  as 
I  fancied  before  I  entered  Italy,  by  females,  who  might 
think  her,  on  account  of  her  sex,  their  most  appropriate 
and  zealous  intercessor,  but  equally  by  men.  and  by 
priests  as  weU  as  laymen.    After  the  Virgin,  some  of  the 
saints  seem  to  be  the  most  worshipped,  then  our  Saviour 
and  lastly  God.    Shocking  as  this  may  appear,  it  is  too 
true.    I  am  sure  I  do  not  exaggerate,  when  I  say  that 
throughout  Italy,  Spain.  Portugal,  and  in  every  country 
where  the  Catholic  is  the  exclusive  religion  of  the  peo- 
ple, for  one  knee  bent  to  God.  thousands  are  bowed 
before  the  shrines  of  the  Virgin  and  the  saints." 

The  worship  of  Brahma  in  India  is  called  Brah- 
amism,  and  that  of  the  Grand  Lama  in  Thibet, 
Lamaism ;  so  we  may.  with  the  same  propriety,  denom- 
inate the  worship  of  the  Virgin  Madonnaism.  But  the 
Virgin,  though  the  chief  deity,  is  but  one  of  a  thousand 
of  the  hero-gods  of  Borne. 

Another  mark  of  the  Beast  which  claims  paternity  in 
the  old  heathen  mythologies,  is  the  doctrine  of  Purgatory. 
The  true  origin  of  this  doctrine  is  unquestionably  from 


IV" 


t   I 


400 


THE    P00T-PRINT8  OP  SATAN. 


the  rites  of  heathenism.  For,  that  the  ancient  heathen 
believed  in  such,  and  performed  rites  for  the  dead,  "  to 
facilitate  their  progress  after  death  to  the  fair  Elysian 
fields,"  is  undeniable.  Virgil  describes  the  rites  of  the 
funeral  pile  as  necessary  to  the  repose  of  the  departed 
spirit.  He  introduces  the  ghost  of  Palinurus  as  com- 
plaining of  the  neglect  of  his  friends  in  this  regard. 
Plato  divided  the  condition  of  departed  spirits  into  three 
states,  viz.,  those  who  had  purified  themselves  with 
philosophy  and  excelled  in  morality  of  life ;  those  ex- 
ceedingly wicked  and  incapable  of  cure ;  and  a  middle 
sort,  who,  though  they  had  sinned,  had  yet  repented, 
and  seemed  to  be  in  a  curable  condition.  The  first 
would  enjoy  eternal  felicity  in  the  islands  of  the  blessed. 
The  second  were  at  death  thrown  headlong  into  hell,  to 
be  tormented  forever.  The  third  class  went  down  like- 
wise to  hell,  to  be  purified  and  absolved  by  their  tor- 
ments, but  through  the  interposition  of  their  friends 
would  be  delivered,  and  attain  to  honor  and  happiness. 

The  Papists,  in  close  imitation  of  this,  make  four 
states  or  conditions  of  the  dead.  The  first  or  lowest  is 
Hell,  the  place  of  the  damned.  The  second  is  Purgato- 
ry. The  third  the  residence  of  infants  who  died  with- 
out baptism.  The  fourth  is  Limbo,  the  abode  of  the 
pious  who  departed  this  life  before  the  birth  of  Christ. 
As  among  the  ancient  Pagans,  so  among  the  Papists, 
there  was  no  end  of  the  offerings  and  labors,  the  rites 
and  sacrifices  for  the  repose  of  the  .dead,  and  their  final 
restoration  to  the  abodes  of  the  blessed.  After  the 
manner  of  the  heathen,  the  priests  diligently  inculcate 
the  idea  that  sufferers  in  Purgatory  may  receive  essen- 
tial relief  from  their  friends  on  earth — that  the  duration 
of  their  pains  may  be  shortened  by  the  masses,  prayers, 
alms  and  other  works  of  piety,  called  the  suffrages  of 
the  faithful.    But  above  all,  by  masses  offered  by  the 


FBAIEBS  TOB  THE  DEO£ASED. 


401 


priest.  No  pains  are  spared  by  the  priest  to  keep  this 
subject  before  the  people.  It  is  to  the  Bomish,  as  it  is 
iiO  the  Pagan  priests,  a  very  projitabk  subject.  Im- 
mense sums  are  extorted  from  the  people  for  prayers 
and  masses  for  the  dead. 

But  we  need  not  resort  to  antiquity.  Existing  systems 
of  Paganism  are  full  of  purgatorial  purifications.  The 
famous  Shradh  of  the  Hindoos  is  but  a  fair  prototype  of 
what  we  meet  this  day  in  Rome.  If  this  ceremony  be 
performed  for  a  rich  man,  all  the  priests  and  people  of 
caste  for  many  miles  around  are  invited,  prayers  are  of- 
fered for  the  deceased,  expensive  oflferings  made,  rich 
presents  to  the  Brahmins,  a  most  magnificent  display  of 
equipage,  clothing  and  all  sorts  of  paraphernalia,  and 
offerings  of  flowers  and  food  for  the  dead^  and  the  most 
luxurious  feasting  for  the  living.  Ghinga-Govindu  Sing- 
hu,  a  person  of  the  writer  caste  and  head-servant  to 
Warren  Hastings,  is  said  to  have  expended,  at  his  moth- 
er's shradh,  twelve  lacs  of  rupees.  A  lac  is  a  hundred 
thousand  rupees,  and  a  rupee  about  half  a  dollar.  And 
near  the  same  time  a  native  Bajah  expended  ten  lacs  for 
the  benefit  of  his  deceased  mother.  Much  of  this  is  ex- 
pended in  rich  offerings,  dresses,  illuminations  and  feasts. 
Many  persons  reduce  themselves  to  beggary  for  life  to  se- 
cure the  name  of  making  a  great  shradh.  It  is  not  un- 
usual for  a  man  to  sell  his  house,  stock,  and  all  he  has,  to 
defray  the  expense  of  this  ceremony.  Many  borrow 
large  sums  which  they  can  never  pay,  and  afterwards  go 
to  jaiL  If  a  man  is  inclined  to  neglect  the  shradh,  he  is 
sure  to  encounter  the  vehement  admonition  of  his  priest, 
who  feels  a  deep  interest  that  there  be  no  delinquency 
here. 

The  services  and  ceremonies  connected  with  the  shradh, 

like  the  prayers,  masses  and  offerings  for  the  deliverance 

of  the  souls  of  the  departed  by  the  Bomish  priesthood, 

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402 


THE  FOOT-PRINTS  OF  SATAN. 


are  rich  fields  on  which  priestly  anrarice  riots  most  luxu- 
riantly. The  unceasing  cry  is  money,  money  for  the  be- 
nefit of  your  dead  relations.  And  who,  when  appealed 
to  amidst  associations  so  tender,  could  withhold  his  gene- 
rous aid?  Who  would  not  open  wide  his  hands  and 
liberally  pour  out  his  treasures  to  smooth  the  anguish  of 
a  father  or  mother  or  some  dear  relative  who  is  suffering 
purgatorial  fires  ? 

Whether  the  Romans  have  really  improved  on  the  old 
Asiatic  idea  of  Purgatory  is  quite  questionable.  They 
have  modified  it  and  changed  names  and  called  it  Ohrist- 
iaiii  but  have  abated  none  of  its  heathenism. 


.11   '. 


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POOr-PRtSTS  OF  SATAN— AS  SEEiV  LV  THE  ABUSE  OF  THE  BIBLE 

''  Let  the  Public  School  System  go  where  it  came  from— the  duvil  "— Roimui  Caiholic 
Freeman's  Journal. 


"  We  ask  that  thf,  Public  Schools  be  cleansed  from  this  peactMlestroying  monstrosity 
—Bible  Reading."— Bishop  Lyvcu,  of  New  Orleans,  Roman  Catholic. 

"It  will  ho  J,  glorions  (by  for  Catholics  in  this  conntry  when  our  School  System  will 
be  s'aivered  to  pieces.''— Cincmnart  Koman  Catholic  Tdegruph. 


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XIX. 

FALSE  RELIGION&-ROMANISM. 

(continued.  ) 


HOW  PDBTHBR  INDEBTED  TO,  OR  RESEMBLING  PAGANISM— 
A  NON-TEAOmNQ  PRIESTHOOD— NO  BIBLE— A  PERSEODT- 
mo  CHURCH— IDOLATRIES— ALL  HAVE  A  COMMON  PATER- 
Nirr  IN  PAGANISM— IS  THE  PAPACY  THE  FINAL  PORM  OF 
THE  GREAT  APOSTASY,  OR  LOOK  WE  POR  ANOTHER? 

Wb  shaU  present  some  further  mustrations  of  the  rela- 
tionship with  Rome  Papal  with  Rome  Pagan,  and  how 
largely  the  Papacy  is  indebted  to  other  systems  of  an- 
cient Paganism. 

Romanism  resembles  Paganism  in  not  having  a  teaching 
priesthood.  Here  we  meet  a  good  line  of  demarkation 
between  a  true  and  a  false  religion.  In  proportion  as  a 
rebgion  is  sensuous  and  corrupt,  it  rejects  instruction,  and 
satisfies  itself  with  ritual  observances,  penances,  and 
bodily  exercises.  Forn>  -  of  Christianitjr  may  be  judged  of 
by  this  rule.  Departures  from  the  purity  and  simpUcity 
of  the  gospel  may  first  be  detected  in  a  diminished  de- 
mand and  relish  for  pure  spiritual  teaching  on  the  one 
hand,  and  on  the  other  an  increased  dependence  on  forms 


404 


THE  P00T-PRINT8  OP  SATAN. 


and  rites.  Such  a  Church  naturally  seek  a  clergy  who 
will  magnify  the  altar  at  the  expense  of  the  pulpit.  Their 
teachings  become  less  abundant  and  less  direct  in  pro- 
portion as  the  life  of  godliness  evaporates  in  mere  forms. 

Sheer  Paganism  has  no  vitality.  It  is  all  form,  and 
consequently  we  find  it  without  any  teaching  priesthood. 
It  is  no  part  of  the  priest's  duty  to  teach  the  people. 
His  official  duties  all  pertain  to  the  ritual.  And  if  we  al- 
low the  eye  but  a  cursory  survey  of  all  religions,  from  the 
negation  of  Paganism  up  to  the  simplest,  purest  form  of 
Christianity,  we  shall  find  just  so  much  of  a  teaching 
Clergy  as  we  find  truth  and  godliness  as  a  basis  of  re- 
ligion. 

What  by  this  standard  are  we  then  to  judge  of  Eoman- 
ism  ?  Does  she,  in  the  duties  she  imposes  on  her  clergy, 
more  resemble  Christianity  or  Paganism  ?  Is  she  a  Pa- 
gan or  a  Christian  Church  ?  Does  she  translate,  circulate 
and  teach  the  Bible  like  a  Christian  Church  ?  Does  she 
encourage  intelligence  among  her  people  ?  If  she  has  a 
teaching  priesthood,  what  mean  those  prayers  and  servi- 
ces in  an  unknown  tongue  ?  Give  Bome  an  open  Bible 
and  a  teaching  ministry  and  she  would  be  Bome  no  more. 
Hence, 

We  offer  as  an  other  point  of  resemblance  and  family 
affinity  Bome's  prohibiiim  of  the  Bible  to  the  mass  of  her 
people.  In  this  she  has  followed  in  the  footsteps  of  all 
spurious  religions  whose  Sacred  Books  are  essentially 
proscribed  to  the  people. 

It  is  claimed  that  the  Bible  is  not  prohibited  to 
the  laity.  This  may  be  partiaUy  true  in  theory,  but  es- 
sentially untrue  in  fact.  We  are  concerned  only  with  the 
&ct.  Does  Bome  or  does  she  not  by  every  possible 
means  discourage  the  circulation  of  the  Bible  9iid  practi- 
cally secure  its  prohibition  ?  We  need  not  go  beyond  the 
present  for  a  reply. 


PROHIBITION  OF  BIBLE> 


405 


An  important  feature  in  the  struggle  now  going  on  in 
Italy,  and  especially  in  Rome,  is  the  bitter  and  determin- 
ed hostmty  of  the  Pope  to  the  Bible.  There  is  no  enemy 
so  much  to  be  dreaded  as  the  Bible.  The  Pope  and  the 
cardinals,  it  would  seem,  cannot  feel  safe  nor  sleep  sound 
0  long  as  the  Bible  is  allowed  to  remain  in  secret  places. 
The  Pope  a  short  time  since,  in  a  circular  to  the  archbishop 
and  bishops  of  Italy,  manifested  his  hatred  towards  the 
circulation  of  the  Bible  in  these  terms  : 

"  Be  careful  to  preserve  the  people  not  only  from  the 
reading  of  the  papers,  but  from  reading  the  Bible,  which 
the  enemies  of  the  Church  and  human  society,  availing 
themselves  of  the  aid  of  Bible  societies,  are  not  ashamed 
to  cu-culate,  and  enjoin  upon  the  faithful  to  shun  with 
horror  the  reading  of  such  deadly  poison— inspiring  them 
at  the  same  time  with  veneration  for  the  holy  see  of  St 
Peter." 

Every  pope  for  the  last  twenty  years  (to  go  no  further 
back)  has  not  failed  to  reiterate  Rome's  abhorrence  of  the 
Bible  and  pronounce  her  anathemas  on  its  circulation. 
Pope  Pius  the  Ninth  proclaims  to  the  world  that  Bible 
societies  are  insidious  and  pernicious  institutions.  Gre- 
gory XVI.,  hig  predecessor,  denounced  it  in  terms  yet 
more  severe.    Rome  both  fears  and  hates  the  Bible. 

Pope  Pius  VII.,  in  the  year  1816,  says  of  the  British 
and  Foreign  Bible  Society,  "  It  is  a  crafty  device  by 
which  the  very  foundations  of  religion  (i.  e.  Popery)  are 
undermined.  A  pestilence  and  defilement  of  the  faith 
most  dangerous  to  souls."  Leo  XII.  in  1824,  speaking 
of  the  institution  says,  "  it  steals  with  effrontery  through 
the  world,  condemning  the  traditions  of  the  holy  fathers, 
and,  contrary  to  the  well-known  Council  of  Trent,  labors 
with  all  its  might,  and  by  every  means,  to  translate  or 
rather  to  pervert  the  Holy  Bible  into  the  vulgar  lan- 
guages of  the  nations." 


'406 


THE  FOOT-FBENTS    OF  SATAN. 


In  1553,  a  number  of  bishops  convened  at  Bologna,  in 
Spain,  to  give  Pope  Julius  III.  counsel  as  to  the  best 
means  of  sustaining  the  Soman  Church  against  the  Be- 
formation.  The  following  is  their  language  respecting 
the  Scriptures :  "  Finally,  it  is  necessary  that  you  watch 
and  labor,  by  all  means  in  your  power,  that  as  small  a 
portion  as  possible  of  the  gospel  (above  all  in  the  vulgar 
tongue)  be  read  in  the  countries  subject  to  our  rule.  It 
is  this  book,  after  all,  that,  more  than  any  other,  has 
raised  against  us  these  troubles  and  these  tempests,  (re- 
ferring to  the  excitement  of  the  Reformation),  which 
have  brought  us  to  the  brink  of  ruin." 

The  Council  of  Trent,  two  years  after  this,  promulgat- 
ed her  famous,,  or  rather  infamous  rules  against  prohibit- 
ed books,  aimed  chiefly  at  the  Bible.  The  truth  is,  they 
are  afraid  to  put  the  Bible  in  any  shape  into  the  hands 
of  the  people,  lest  it  should  disclose  secret  abominations. 
Hence  they  hedge  its  circulation  about  with  so  many 
difficulties  that  the  seeming  approbation  which  they  some- 
times give  when  policy  compels,  amounts  practically  to 
nothing. 

The  following  paragraphs,  taken  from  an  article  in  the 
"  Christian  World"  entitled,  " Hostility  of  the  Eomish 
Church  to  Protestant  versions  of  the  Bible,  a  mere  pre- 
tence," are  so  apposite  to  our  subject,  we  shall  do  the 
reader  a  favor  by  transferring  them  to  our  pages. 

"  There  are  some  who  think  that  the  opposition  of  the 
Church  of  Home  to  the  Bible  is  not  owing  to  any  ob- 
jection on  their  part  to  the  book  itself,  but  to  the  Pro- 
testant versions  of  it.  But  the  fact  is,  the  hatred  of  this 
fallen  Church  goes  farther,  and  lies  deeper.  Believing  a 
lie,  she  hates  the  book  which  exposes  her  falsehoods  and 
overthrows  her  claims.  Hence  the  conflict  between  the 
Papacy  and  the  Bible — whence  all  the  obloquy  heaped  on 
the  holy  volume— hence  all  the  Bible-burnings  and  cruel 


BOmSH  OPPOSITION  TO  BIBLE. 


407 


imprisonment  and  slaughter  of  those  who  have  had  the 
courage  to  read  the  Book  of  God.  The  objection  to  the 
Protestant  version  is  a  mere  pretence,  made  use  of  in 
Protestant  countries  to  blind  the  people,  and  hide  from 
view  the  real  issue.  Rome  hates  the  Bible  in  any  and 
every  form.  She  taught  the  people  of  Ireland  to  call  the 
Protestant  Bible  the  DemCs  Booh,  and  she  has  often  burn- 
ed versions  and  editions  published  with  the  authority  of 
the  Pope.  The  Bibles  burned  at  Bogota  a  few  months 
ago  were  Roman  Catholic  versions.  There  is  enough  in 
the  Douay,  or  any  other  Roman  translation  of  the  Bible, 
to  open  the  eyes  of  the  people,  and  overthrow  the  whole 
system  of  the  Papacy.  All  the  editions  ever  published 
contain  these  words:  "For  there  is  one  God  and  onb 
mediator  between  God  and  men,  the  man  Christ  Jesus," 
(1  Timothy,  ii.,  6,)  and  this  text  is  sufficient  to  destroy 
the  worship  of  the  Virgin  Mary,  and  to  do  away  with  the 
mediation  of  saints  and  angels. 

"  The  Reformation,  which  owes  its  origin  to  the  Bible, 
and  the  spread  of  Protestantism,  which  is  due  to  God's 
blessing  on  the  word  of  life,  have  aroused  the  hostility  of 
Rome  to  the  Holy  Scriptures,  and  led  to  divers  decrees, 
anathemas  and  bulls  against  their  circulation.  Before 
the  time  of  Luther  many  valuable  editions  of  the  Bible 
were  published  under  the  auspices  of  the  Roman  Church, 
but  since  the  16th  century  very  little  has  been  done  by 
popes  or  prelates  to  publish  and  illustrate  the  Word  of 
God. 

"  Romanists  have  often  acknowledged  that  the  Bible 
was  against  them,  and  that  their  Church  could  find  no 
support  from  Holy  Scripture. 

"  At  the  Diet  of  Augsburg,  (A.  D.  1530,)  as  the  Bishop 
of  Mentz  was  looking  over  the  Bible,  one  of  his  counsel- 
lors said  to  him :  "  What  does  your  Electoral  Grace 
make  of  this  book  ?"  to  which  he  replied :  "  I  know  not 


LT'I 


'  J  :&i' 


408 


THE  FOOT-PBINTS  OF  SATAN. 


wtat  to  make  of  it,  save  tkatcdl  thai  I  jiind  in  it  is  againat 
w."  At  the  same  diet,  Duke  Williftm  of  Bavaria,  who 
was  strongly  opposed  to  the  Beformers,  asked  Dr.  Eck  : 
"  Cannot  we  refute  these  opinions  by  the  Holy  Scrip- 
tures ?"  "No,"  said  he,  "but  by  the  Fathers."  The 
Bishop  of  Mentz  then  said :  "  The  Lutherans  show  us 
their  belief  in  Scripture,  and  we  ours  out  of  Scripture." 
An  Augustiu  monk,  when  he  saw  Luther  reading  the 
Bible,  said  to  him :  "  Ah,  brother  Martin,  what  is  there 
in  the  Bible  ?  It  is  better  to  read  the  ancient  doctors, 
who  have  sucked  the  honey  of  the  truth.  The  Bible  is  the 
oauae  (f  aU  our  trovMea"* 

"  The  Church  of  Bome  well  knows  that  no  person  of 
common  candor  and  understanding  can  read  the  Bible, 
and  not  discover  a  strange  discrepancy  between  its  teach- 
ings and  the  doctrines  of  the  Papacy.  She  has,  therefore, 
done  all  in  her  power  to  hinder  the  study  of  the  Word  of 
God,  in  direct  opposition  to  the  command  of  our  Lord,  to 
**  search  the  Scriptures." 

"  While  the  Council  of  Trent  declared  the  Latin  Vul- 
gate to  be  authentic  in  all  public  discussions,  and  did  not 
absolutely  forbid  translations  into  the  vernacular  tongue, 
it  prescribed  such  conditions  and  regulations  as  were  cal- 
culated to  limit  and  prevent  the  use  of  them.  This 
CouncU  also  permitted  the  reading  of  the  Bible ;  but  with 
such  restrictions  that  the  grant  amounts  to  a  virtual  pro- 
hibition. 

"  The  fourth  rule  concerning  prohibited  books,  which 
was  approved  by  Pope  Pius  IV.,  begins  in  these  words : 
*  Inasmuch  as  it  is  manifest  from  experience,  that  if  the 
Holy  Bible,  translated  into  the  vulgar  tongue,  be  indis- 
criminately allowed  to  every  one,  the  temerity  of  men 
will  cause  more  evil  than  good  to  arise  from  it ;  it  is,  on 

—  ^  I  I  ,  I..  , 

*  Miohelet's  Life  of  Luther,  pp.  260,  261. 


BIBLE  NO  AUTHOmTT. 


409 


this  point  referred  to  the  judgment  of  the  bishops  or  in- 
quisitors, who  may,  by  the  advice  of  the  priest  or  con- 
fessor, permit  the  reading  of  the  Bible,  translated  into  the 
vulgar  tongue  by  Catholic  authors,  to  those  persons 
whose  faith  and  piety  they  apprehend  will  be  augmented, 
and  not  injured  by  it ;  and  this  permission  they  must 
have  in  writing.' 

"  The  design  of  this  rule  was  not  to  encourage,  but  ra- 
ther to  discourage  and  prevent  the  reading  of  the  sacred 
volume.  In  harmony  with  this  intention,  Popish  j^rriters 
have  given  such  representations  of  the  Bible  as  were 
adapted  to  repress  all  desires  and  attempts  to  become 
acquainted  with  its  saving  truths.  They  have  alleged 
that  the  Scriptures  are  very  obscure ;  and  indeed  so  un- 
intelligible that  they  cannot  be  understood  without  the 
interpretation  of  the  Church.  They  have  affirmed  tM.  the 
Bible  has  no  authority  in  itself ;  and  were  ii  not  for  the  avr 
thority  of  the  Church  it  vxnAd  not  he  more  credible  than 
JSaop^s  faiilea  ;  that  it  cannot  make  men  wise  unto  salva- 
tion, and  is  calculated  rather  to  lead  them  astray,  and  to 
be  the  cause  of  all  manner  of  errors  and  heresies. 

"  When  we  consider  that  the  Church  of  Borne  claims 
to  have  a  religion  based  on  divine  revelation,  her  efforts 
and  arguments  to  prevent  the  reading  and  circulation  of 
the  Bible  are  so  absurd,  that  they  would  never  have  been 
thought  of,  if  there  had  not  been  some  sinister  ends  to 
accomplish.  "  No  man  is  displeased  that  others  should 
enjoy  the  light  of  the  sun,  unless  he  is  engaged  in  some 
design  which  it  is  his  interest  that  others  should  not  see ; 
and  in  this  case,  he  would  wish  the  gloom  of  midnight 
to  sit  down  upon  the  earth,  that  he  might  practice  his 
nefarious  deeds  with  impunity.  It  is  an  interest  con- 
trary to  the  Scriptures  which  has  impelled  the  Church 
of  Borne  to  exert  her  power  to  hinder  the  circulation." 

This  well  confirms  the  conclusion  of  a  grave  Bomish 


410 


THE  F00T-PBINT8  OF  SATAN. 


writer  who  says,  "  It  is  manifest  by  experience  that  if  the 
use  of  the  Bible  be  permitted  in  the  TtilgM:  tongue,  more 
evil  than  profit  will  result.  It  is  for  this  reason  the  Bible 
is  prohibited  with  all  its  parts,  whether  printed  or  written, 
in  whatsoever  vulgar  language-^also  all  summaries  and 
abridgments." 

The  following  incident  is  believed  to  be  no  more  than 
a  fair  example  of  the  hatred  of  the  Bomish  priest  to  the 
Bible,  and  of  the  demonstration  of  his  aversion  when 
circumstances  will  allow.  A  priest  was  called  to  perform 
extreme  unction  for  a  man  in  Ceylon,  who  was  near  his 
end.  On  entering  the  house  he  saw  a  book  on  the  shelf, 
and  inquired  what  it  was.  When  told  it  was  a  New  Tes- 
stament,  he  took  it  down,  tore  it  in  pieces,  and  trampled 
it  under  his  feet. 

As  a  shrewd  writer  on  Papacy  well  says,  "  They  are 
afraid  to  put  the  Bible,  in  any  shape,  into  the  hands  of 
the  people,  lest  it  should  disclose  their  secret  abomina- 
tions."  It  is  not  the  Protestant  translation  that  is  feared, 
but  the  Bible. 

As  touching  the  Bible  and  its  general  use  we  commend 
our  Boman  Catholic  friends  to  the  opinion  and  practice 
of  the  great  St.  Patrick  of  Ireland.  The  record  says, 
"  He  was  a  great  reader  and  lover  of  the  Bible.  He  left 
only  two  short  compositions,  but  in  them  he  makes  forty- 
three  distinct  quotations  from  the  Holy  Scriptures,  and 
throughout  his  writings  his  phraseology  is  scriptural, 
showing  that  the  Bible  was  his  daily  companion  for  pe- 
rusal and  meditation. 

The  Papacy  has  again  identified  herself  with  systems 
of  paganism,  in  the  fact  that  she  is  &  persecuting  Church, 
Pagan  Borne  put  men  to  death  by  myriads,  simply 
because  they  tvere  Christians.  Papal  Bome  has  put 
millions  of  Christians  to  death  because  they  were  not 
Pagans.    In  nothing,  perhaps,  is  Bome  more  distinctly 


PBBSEOrmONS  OF  THE  ROMISH  OHUBOH. 


411 


characterized  than  in  that  of  being  a  peraecutmg 
Church.  No  history  has  recorded  the  number  of  her 
victims.  Intolerance  has  not  only  stood  out  as  an  ugly 
excrescence,  but  it  has  from  the  first  been  the  animating 
spirit  of  that  huge  body.  From  the  very  nature  of  the 
case,  full  statistics  of  numbers  are  not  to  be  found. 
Thousands  upon  thousands,  of  whom  the  world  was  not 
worthy,  disappeared— were  immured  in  prisons,  starved, 
tortured,  and  either  left  to  die,  or  secretly  murdered] 
and  no  record  remains. 

According  to  the  calculations  of  some,  about  200,000 
Christian  Protestants  suffered  death,  in  seven  years,  un- 
der Pope  Julian;  no  less  than  100,000  were  massacred 
by  the  French  in  the  space  of  three  months;  Walden- 
ses  who  perished  amounted  to  1,000,000;  within  thirty 
years  the  Jesuits  destroyed  90U,000;  under  the  Duke 
of  Alva,  26,000  were  executed  by  the  hangman ;  169,000 
by  the  Irish  massacre,  besides  the  vast  multitude  of 
whom  the  worid  could  never  be  particularly  mformed, 
who  were  proscribed,  starved,  burnt,  assassinated, 
chained  to  the  galleys  for  life,  immured  within  the  waUs 
of  the  Bastile,  or  others  of  their  church  and  state  pri- 
sons. According  to  some,  the  whole  number  of  persons 
massacred  since  the  rise  of  Papacy,  including  the  space 
of  1,400  years,  amounts  to  15,000,000. 

Eome  has  never  failed,  when  she  had  the  power,  to 
make  good  her  claim  to  the  prophetic  title  affixed  to  her, 
a  "Woman  drunken  with  the  blood  of  the  saints', 
AND  with  blood  OF  THE  MARTYRS  OF  Jesus  1"  Intoler- 
ance is  her  very  life  and  soul.  By  fire  and  by  sword 
she  has  sought  to  extirj)ate  from  the  earth  all  who  dared 
raise  the  banner  of  freedom,  or  resist  her  spiritual  des- 
potism. "The  vaUeys  of  Piedmont  and  Switzeriand, 
the  sunny  plains  of  France  and  Holland,  the  hiUs  of 
Scotland  and  the  meadows  of  England,  have  been  made 


m 


TBS   VOOT-FBOrrS  OF  SATAir. 


f«t  with  the  blood  of  countless  martjrrs,  who  hare  been 
daorifioed  by  the  ambition  of  Papal  power."  And  Bomd 
never  changes. 

Indeed,  we  may  in  all  trath  say  the  Devil  is  nowhere 
so  completely  at  home,  so  congenially  acting  out  his  in- 
nermost sonl,  as  in  the  work  of  religious  persecution. 
But  for  the  burning  fact  that  stands  as  an  indelible  blot 
on  the  page  of  history,  we  could  not  believe  that  men 
could  ever  become  so  completely  divested  of  every  fea* 
ture  of  a  decent  manhood — could  so  assume  the  nature 
and  garb  of  the  Arch  Demon — though  clad  in  priestly 
robes,  "  the  livery  of  heaven" — as  to  instigate  and  stand 
by  and  witness  tortures  inflicted  on  their  kindred  accord- 
ing to  the  flesh,  more  cruel,  more  barbarous  than  the  ve- 
riest savages  ever  thought  of.  And  all  this  for  no  other 
crime  than  that  of  reading  the  Bible  and  worshipping 
God  according  to  the  dictates  of  their  own  consciences. 
Men,  as  men,  never  surrendered  themselves  up  to  a  work 
BO  completely  devilish.  This  whole  work  of  religious 
persecution  is  the  foulest  incarnation  of  the  Pit. 

It  would  now  seem  almost  unnecessary  to  say  that 
the  Papacy  resembles  the  old  Pagan  systems  in  the  prac- 
tice of  iddatry.  We  have  spoken  of  the  worship  of 
saints  and  angels — the  deification,  after  the  manner  of 
the  heathen,  of  heroes — the  worship  of  the  Virgin,  in 
like  manner  as  the  heathen  worship  tlmr  goddess.  We 
meet  at  every  turn  and  comer  in  Papal  countries,  pic- 
tures, images,  relics,  the  cross,  and  all  sorts  of  emblems 
of  idolatry.  In  judging  of  the  idolatrous  character  of 
Home  Papal,  we  must  have  regard  to  the  surroundings. 
In  a  country  like  ours,  Bromanism  is  one  thing.  It  ap- 
pears shorn  of  much  of  its  deformity — especially  of  its 
grosser  idolatry.  Bome  stands  forth  simply  as  one  of 
the  diflferent  forms  of  the  prevalent  idolatry  of  the  land. 
The  suppression  for  a  time,  in  a  Christian  land,  of  her 


BAST  OHANQB  FROM  PAOANISV  TO  BOMANISM 


418 


real  oharaoter,  is  simply  a  temporary  and  temporizing 
policy.  Where  Borne  exists  in  heathen  countries,  she 
practices  no  such  reserves  and  deceptions.  She  appears 
and  acts  out  herself.  In  illustration  of  this,  and  as 
showing  up  Bomanism  in  its  real  character,  we  may  oit9 
a  few  instances : 

The  reason  given  by  the  historian,  why  the  barbarians 
(the  conquerers  of  Borne)  so  easily  submitted  to  the  re- 
ligion of  the  conquered,  is  that  the  established  form  of 
the  Bomish  religion  approximated  so  closely  to  their 
own  superstition  and  idolatry.  The  Ghristian  or  Bom- 
ish priests  did  not  differ  so  much  from  the  heathen 
priests  but  that  they  might  be  still  received  and  honored 
by  the  barbarians.  And  this  is  a  testimony  that  has 
been  borne  in  all  heathen  countries  where  BomanisiA 
has  been  introduced.  No  wonder  the  Papists  are  SQ 
successful  in  making  converts.  Only  make  it  for  his  t'n- 
terest  to  become  a  Papist,  and  the  idolater  has  no  diffi- 
culty in  changing  his  religion  arising  from  any  radical 
difference  between  the  two  religions  in  their  character 
and  essence.  Being  already  an  idolater,  he  is  none  th^ 
less  so  after  his  conversion.  He  substitutes  one  set  of 
forms  for  another— one  set  of  idols  for  another.  But  he 
has  perhaps  taught  no  new  truth — has  no  more  correct 
views  of  God  or  of  his  law  and  ordinances,  of  duty 
and  obligation,  and  of  the  pardon  of  sin  through  the 
atoning  blood  of  the  crucified  One,  than  he  had  while 
bowing  down  to  his  pagan  idols. .  As  has  been  most  ex- 
tensively illustrated  in  British  India,  the  conversion  to 
Bomanism  is  no  more  a  conversion  to  Christianity  thau 
the  passing  from  the  worship  of  one  heathen  god  to 
that  of  another  (as  the  Hindoos  oftep  do)  is  a  conver^i 
sion  to  the  true  God;  so  it  is  in  fdl  countries  wherq 
Borne  has  made  her  inroads.  In  point  of  intelligencOi 
morality,  civilization,  a  purer  worship,  or  in  any  of  the 


4U 


THB    FOOT-PBDTrS  OF  SATAN. 


lu 


oharacteristios  of  a  pare  Ohristianity,  the  great  Papal 
population  of  India  has  no  pre-eminence  over  the  native 
idolaters. 

Of  this  we  have  the  united  testimony  of  travellers. 
Speaking  of  Italy  one  says,  "  If  a  Pagan  from  anoient 
Naples  should  suddenly  arise  from  his  grave,  he  would 
feel  perfectly  at  home  in  the  practice  of  this  false  Christ- 
ianity. Names  have  been  changed,  but  the  creed  and  the 
worship  are  about  the  same.  Still  he  meets  the  house- 
hold gods,  the  virgin  goddess — images,  pictures— gods 
many,  and  lords  many.  At  the  comer  of  every  street,  a 
niche  contains  the  image  of  the  patron  saint  of  the  place. 
When  the  street  is  long  there  are  several  niches  wiUi  dif- 
ferent saints.  On  entering  the  humblest,  or  most  splen- 
did shop,  you  see,  opposite  the  door,  the  statue  of  the 
virgin  or  a  saint,  decked  with  flowers,  and  in  the  evening 
this  image  is  lighted  with  candles. 

The  Bomish  priest,  as  he  wakes  up  in  a  heathen  land, 
and  in  "  the  chambers  of  her  imagery,"  is  astonished 
to  meet  objects,  and  to  witness  rites  and  observances 
which  have  been  to  )iim  from  his  youth  familiar  as  house- 
holds words.  The  heathen  man,  on  the  other  hand, 
comes  to  Some,  and  not  the  less  wonders  that  these  modem 
idolaters  have  sc  faithfully  preserved  the  image  and  su- 
perscription— ^yea,  the  life  and  spirit  of  the  old  idolatry. 
The  following  testimony  of  a  Chinese  missionary  more 
than  confirms  all  we  have  said.  We  transcribe  a  para- 
graph :  "  When  I  was  compelled,"  says  Rev.  Mr.  Smith, 
"  to  observe  the  details  of  these  idolatrous  ceremonies, 
I  could  not  fail  to  be  impressed  with  the  striking  simi- 
larity of  the  rites  of  Buddha  with  those  of  Popery.  No 
unsophisticated  mind,  no  mere  ordinary  observer,  could 
mingle  fa  the  scenes  which  I  witnei^ed  in  those  tem- 
ples, no  one  could  be  transferred  from  this  country  to  be 
an  eye-witness  of  those  Buddhist  ceremoni^  s  and  supersti- 


Papal 
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itjA&. 


i-'miT-rRiNrs  of  satan—as  seen  jjst  huddiusm. 

"The  grral(st  (.'uriosity  in  Japan  if  the  Hatue  ofDaihooU,  or  the  Great  Biiddah, 
This  irniruinse  itnnge  st'iiulB  about  two  milts  from  the  temples,  in  a  garden  and 
grove  orbutnbooB.  It  is  ot  the  r.negt  hroiize,  and  executed  with  wonderful  skill. 
It  is  so  large  that  it  contains  a  chapel  and  altar  inside  of  it,  and  a  full-grown  man 
can  sit  inside  of  its  nose!  Its  height  is  about  sixty-five  feet,  and  its  diameter 
thrityfeet."  ' 


SmilARriT  OP  PA0ANI8M  AND  ROMANIfllf.  415 

tions,  without  being  for  the  moment  impressed  with  the 
idea,  that  what  he  saw  was  nothing  else  than  Koman  Oa- 
thoHcism  in  Ohma.    Would  that  those  who  show  an  un- 
happy zeal  in  the  maintenance  of  the  ceremonies  of  the 
Church  of  Rome  could  be  transferred  to  this  heathen 
land,  and  there  see  how  closely  Paganism  assimUates 
with  Eqmanism,  and  how  intimately  Romanism  assimi- 
lates with  Paganism  I    There  are  the  same  institutions, 
the  same  ceremonies,  the  same  rites  in  the  on6  as  in  the 
other.    There  is  the  monastery,  celibacy,  the  dress  and 
caps  of  the  priests,  the  incense,  the  bells,  the  rosary  of 
beads,  the  lighted  candles  at  the  altar,  the  same  intona- 
tion in  the  services,   the  same  idea  of  purgatory,  the 
praying  in  an  unknown  tongue,  the  offerings  to  departed 
spirits  in  the  temple,  the  same  in  the  Buddhist  temples  of 
China  as  in  the  Roman  CathoUc  churches  of  Europe. 
And  what  is  still  more  remarkable,  and  at  the  same 
time  shows  a  melancholy  resemblance  between  the  two 
religions,  the  principal  female  god  of  the  Chinese,  the 
Goddess  of  Mercy,  has  also  the  title  of  Shing  Moo, 
msaning   holy  mother,    and  Teen  How,  which  means 
queen  of  heaven,  and,  what  is  still  more  remarkable,  she 
is  always  represented  by  the  image  of  a  woman  bearing 
a  male  child  in  her  arms  I    In  fact,  the  whole  system  of 
Buddhist  worship,  as  carried  on  in  China,  presents  such  a 
strong  resemblance  to  that  of  the  Church  of  Rome  that 
an  early  Jesuit  missionary,  who  visited  China,  declared 
that  Buddhism  must  have  been  the  invention  of  Satan 
himself,  to  retard  the  progress  of  Christianity  by  showing 
its  striking  similarity  with  the  Buddhist  worship. 

Which  is  the  original  and  which  the  imitation— Ro- 
manism or  Buddhism?  asks  Bishop  Kingsley  in  his  re- 
cord of  late  travels  in  the  East.  Read  the  following 
paragraph  and  possibly  your  decision  will  be  in  favor  of 
Buddishm  as  the  original 


m 


THH  FOOT-PBINTS  OP  SATAN. 


"  On  this  mountain,  which  is  ascended  by  tL  onsands 
of  stone  steps,  is  a  Buddhist  monastery  ani  temples  with 
all  the  appliances  for  this  form  of  idolatrous  worship. 
Here  is  a  great  number  of  Buddhist  priests,  who  i=ve  in  a 
state  of  celibacy,  and  look,  and  act,  and  worship  so 
much  like  Eoman  Catholic  priests,  the  one  might  be  Tery 
easily  mistaken  for  the  other.    Whether  the  Bomanists 
learned  the  mummeries  from  the  Buddhists,  or  the  Bud- 
dhists from  the  Bomanists,  it  is  morally  certain  from  the 
great  many  points  of  resemblance,  that  they  had  a  com- 
mon origin.    Long  wax  candles  were  burning  before 
them,  and  one  of  them  was  burning  incense.    These 
priests  live  an  austere  life,  refrain  from  animal  food, 
beUeve  in  purgatory,  pray  for  the  dead,  and  live  a  life 
of  mendicancy.  Adjoining  this  great  temple  is  the  temple 
of  the  Goddess  of  Mercy.    One  of  the  idols  in  this  has 
thirty-six  hands,  eighteen  on  each  side.   Directly  in  front 
of  this  is  an  image  of  a  Chinese  woman,  and  on  eithex 
side  a  great  number  of  smaller  idols." 

In  the  mirror  we  have  been  holding  up  we  have  seen 
the  image  of  the  old  Paganism  reflected  in  all  its  essential 
features,  yet  so  modified  and  changed  in  name—so  adap- 
ted to  the  change  of  times  and  the  progress  of  the  world, 
and  more  especially  to  the  progress  of  the  true  religion, 
as  to  exhibit  it  as  a  consummate  scheme  of  diabolism  to 
counteract  the  benevolent  purposes  of  God  for  the  salva- 
tion of  men,  and  to  establish  the  empire  of  Satan  over 
this  apostate  woild.  Whether  this  shall  prove  the  final 
great  counterfeit— the  summation  on  earth  of  the  infernal 
machinations  of  his  Satanic  Majesty  to  subvert  the  di- 
vine scheme  for  the  restoration  of  man,  and  to  achieve 
the  ruin  of  our  race,  or  whether  we  shall  look  for 
another  revelation  of  the  "mystery  of  iniquity  "—of  the 
**  deceivableness  of  unrighteousness,"  a  k*  ,heme  yet  more 
subtle,  seductive  and  dangerous  because  assuming  yet 


ANOTHER  GREAT  RELIGION  TO  ARISE. 


417 


more  of  the  guise  of  the  true  reUgion,  we  affirm  not 
let  It  would  seem  but  analogous  with  the  past  to  sup- 
pose that  there  yet  remains  to  be  revealed  another 
phase  of  the  man  of  sin— or  tlie  man  of  sin,  the  final  ma- 
mfestation  in  relation  to  which  aU  the  preceding  dispen- 
sations of  the  Devil  were  but  preparatory  to  the  dreadful 
consummation. 

There  is  some  ground  to  satisfy  such  a  surmise     Bo- 
manism  is  efi^ete.    Ite  idolatry  is  too  gross  for  the  age. 
Its  ntes  and  superstitions  belong  to  a  darker  age.    The 
world  has  advanced,  knowledge  has  increased,  civilization 
has  made  deciaed  progress,  and  liberty  has  given  unmis- 
takable tokens  that  ere  long  she  wiU  unfurl  her  banners 
over  every  nation  on  the  face  of  the  earth.    And  more 
l^an  aU  the  religion  of  the  New  Testament  has  made  not- 
able advance.    As  the  Oriental  nations  have  outgrown 
the  Pagamsm  of  bygone  ages,  so  have  the  Western  na- 
tions become  too  enlightened  and  free  much  longer  to  tol- 
erate the  semi-Paganism  of  Eome.    Hence  our  Arch-Foe 
seems  shut  up  to  a  corresponding  change  of  tactics,  and 
of  his  mode  of  warfare.    Bome  is  stiU  strong-mightv  in 
her  munitions  and  strongholds  to  carry  on  the  warfare 
under  the  old  regime,  but  no  more  suited  to  the  stato  of 
the  world  than  old  imperial  Rome  would  be,  were  she 
to  attempt  to  cope  with  modem  France  or   England 
She  would  have  the  power  but  dot  the  adaptedness-the 
apphances. 

Bome  must  change  her  tactics— put  on  the  modem 
armor.  And  the  same  is  yet  more  tme  of  the  religion  of 
Mecca  and  of  the  Pagan  nations  of  Asia.  They  lack  the 
same  adaptedness  to  the  times. 

Hence  we  infer  that  the  Devil  will  change  his  tectics  and 
his  whole  modeof  warfare-that  another  great  anti-Christ- 
lan  power  shall  arise,  (emanating  out  of  the  mouth  of  the 
Dragon,  and  of  the  Beast,  and  the  false  Prophet)  more 


•^         .lit 


418 


THE  R)OIVPBINTS  OF  BATAN. 


formidable  because  more  subtle — more  like  Ohristianity 
in  form  and  pretence,  yet  more  unlike  in  spirit  and 
e£,sence — a  baptized  form  of  modem  skepticism  and  infi- 
delity, bearing  the  name  of  Christ,  and  professing  to  be 
especially  a  Church/or  the  timea^  yet  more  essentially  Anti- 
Christ  than  the  present  Eomish  Apostasy.  The  Beast 
"without  his  horns — the  Dragon  with  all  his  fierceness 
and  malignity  and  eagerness  to  devour,  yet  clad  in  the 
guise  of  the  lamb,  and  the  false  Prophet  robed  in  the 
vestments  of  the  High  Priest  of  Christianity,  yet  with  all 
the  intolerance  of  the  Arch-Turk. 


►::iif     <i   y 


mm 


anity 
:  and 
linfi- 
to  be 
Anti- 
Beast 
eness 
n  the 
n  the 
thaU 


XX 


FALSE  RELIGIONS-JESUinSM. 


THE  JESUrra-OHARAOTBR  OF  THE  FRATERNm  -THE  MISSION 
OP  MADURA-POMOY  OF  THE  MISSIONAEIE8-0HARAC1ER  OP 
CONTERTS-JESUITO  IN  AMEBIOA--rHEIB  SPIBIT  AND  POUOY 
UNCHANGED. 

«  TAe^noe  <f  this  world  cometh  and  hath  nothing  in 
me  -  mose  aming  is  after  the  w<yrUng  of  Satan,  with  aU 
power  and  signs  and  tvonders,  and  with  aU  decdvaUeness  of 
unrighteousness."— Joms  xiv.,  30;    2  Thes  ii.,  9,  10. 

SraoE  the  apostasy  Satan  has  been  the  god  of  this 
world.  His  empire  has  pervaded  the  entire  territory  of 
humanity  His  aim  has  been  to  make  a  complete  mo- 
nopoly of  aU  which  belongs  to  man.  By  sin  he  has 
marred  the  beauty  of  this  lower  world,  alienated  man 
from  his  Maker,  and  as  far  as  possible  perverted  eveiy- 

ttZ^r  '''T^^'f  ^''^^'  He  has  prevailed  to 
throw  aU  into  disorder  and  darkness  and  perversion. 
Christ  came  to  destroy  the  works  of  the  Devil-to  re- 
store the  ruins  of  the  Fall-to  disarm  the  Destroyer,  and 
to  reinstate  man  and  this  earth  in  their  original  condi- 


420 


THE  FOOT-PRINTS  OP  SATAN. 


Our  motto  presents  Christ  approaching  the  crisis  of 
the  conflict  with  the  Devil.  In  Gethsemane  should  be 
the  great  agonizing  struggle.  He  must  here  suspend 
further  communication  with  his  disciples.  He  could  not 
talk  much  more  with  them  because  the  pvince  of  this 
world — the  power  of  darkness  — approached,  and  he  must 
now  grapple  with  the  Arch  Foe.  The  death-blow  to  the 
prince  should  now  be  given — and  henceforth  his  king- 
dom should  wane  and  the  prince  himself  be  bound  in 
everlasting  chains,  and  the  kingdom  and  dominion  and 
the  greatness  of  the  kingdom  in  the  whole  earth  be 
given  to  the  saints  of  the  Most  High. 

Though  forever  done  away  and  not  a  vestige  of  the  vast 
and  melancholy  insurrection  which  has  so  long  and  so 
miserably  confused  our  world,  shall  remain  to  disturb 
the  harmony  and  love  and  eternal  blessedness  of  the 
righteous,  yet  the  history  of  this  melancholy  insurrection 
shall  never  lose  its  interest — ^how  sin  entered  the  worjd 
— ^why  it  was  permitted— what  ends  are  to  be  accom- 
plished by  it— by  what  agencies  and  instrumentalities  it  is 
made  to  develop  itself  and  to  accomplish  its  ends— what 
plans,  schemes,  systems,  the  prince  of  this  world  devises 
to  enthrall  man  in  bondage  and  to  compass  his  ruin — 
what  institutions  he  perverts — what  monopolies  he  se- 
cures— what  agencies  he  employs. 

We  have  already  named  War,  Intemperance,  the  per- 
verted use  of  property,  and  false  Rdigimis  as  great  and 
terrific  agencies  by  which  the  god  of  this  worid  retains 
his  usurped  power,  fills  the  worid  with  woe  and  hell  with 
victims.  We  shall  now  speak  of  another  species  of  organ- 
zed  action,  which  he  extensively  employs  for  the  same 
purpose,  such  as  appears  in  t^:  -nities,  institutions,  re- 
ligious orders  and  the  like. 
It  win  suffice  for  our  present  purpose  to  speak  of  the 


JESUITISM  THE  MASTERPIECE.  421 

Society  of  Jesus,  or  the  institote  of  Ignatius  Lovola 
commonly  called  Jesuitism.  -HS^^^us  Jjoyola, 

We  have  not  selected  this  subject  as  a  mere  abstract 
or  histoncal  question,  but  as  a  subject  of  grea^pTa^S 
miportance  m  its  bearing  both  on  iur  natSn  and Tnthe 
One  Church,  and  by  consequence,  on  the  cause  of  Hberty 
and  rebgion  throughout  the  world.  For  no  other  peoSe 
have  more  need  to  become  acquainted  with  the  cWter 

S^emeanfof'-f '^'  design  and  power  of  this  institution 
toe  means  of  its  advancement  and  its  aim.  It  is  probable 
tiie  activities  of  this  society  are  at  this  moment  m^e 
busily  and  more  effectively  employed  in  thiscou^^I^ 

jZir     \"^P''"^^'  ^^*^  ^^^^«'  ^«P«  ot  success 
studv tri.  ?  ^  T^  '^^^'  ^'^"^^  *^^  *^«  ^«'«  ^e 
tW^h        ^u     "^  *^  "^^'^  ^^""  ^«  b«««°^«  convinced 
tl'^^, '"  ^:  ^masterpiece  of  the  spirit  that  worketh  in 
the  c^Wren  of  disobedience.    It  is  a  consummate  systeS 
of  duphcity,  cunnmg,  and  power  for  the  maintenance  of 
a  control  over  humaa  mind.    I  do  not  know  that  there 
exists  m  our  world  at  the  present  time  another  system  so 
fraught  with  evil,  so  potential  in  the  support  of  error 
and  so  dangerous  to  the  cause  of  hberty  and  all  teue  re- 
ligion.    We  may  therefore  regard  Jesuitism  as  Satan's 
choicest,  most  adroit  and  most  potent  engine  for  the 
mamtenance  of  his  empire  on  the  earth 

The  founder  of  this  society  was  Ignatius  Loyola,  bom 
m  1491.  A  Spanish  soldier  till  1521,  when  receiving  a 
severe  wound,  in  the  siege  of  Pampeluna,  which  disabled 
him  from  further  military  service,  he  gave  up  the  profes- 
sion  of  a  soldier  for  that  of  a  samt,  n..d  soon  conceived 
the  Idea  of  forming  a  new  religious  order,  to  be  called  the 
booiety  of  Jesus.  After  thirteen  years  of  sbAy,  joumey- 
mgs,  self-mortification  and  penance,  this  "  Imight  errant 
of  our  Blessed  Lady,"  as  he  should  be  called,  established 
Jus  order  (1634)  with  seven  members.    Six  years  after 


422 


THE  POOT-PMNTS  OF  SATAN. 


(1540)  it  was  sanctioned  and  owned  by  the  Pope,  Paul 
IIL,  who  granted  to  its  members  the  most  ample  privi- 
leges and  appointed  Ignatius  the  first  general  of  the 
order,  with  almost  despotic  power  over  its  members. 

We  thus  find  Jesuitism  and  the  Eomish  Church  early 
in  alliance.    We  are  not,  however,  to  regard  this  alliance 
as  a  necessary  one.    Bomanism  and  the  institution   of 
-  Loyola  are  two  distinct  things,  met  usually  in  concert, 
because  they  are  so  nearly  aUied  in  spirit,  and  of  conse- 
quence they  mutually  aid  each  other.    Jesuitism  is  an  in- 
dependent institution,  living  by  its  own  life  and  acting 
for  or  against  the  Church  as  its  own  policy  dictates. 
TlifJi^gh  it  lent  the  most  efficient  aid  to  the  cause  of 
Home,  and  is  generally  found  in  alliance  with  her,  yet  the 
institution  has  its  own  ends  to  compass,    which   her 
members  will  not  be  diverted  from,  whether  they  can  be 
gained  with  or  without,  or  in  spite  of  the  Romish  Church. 

The  Pope,  in  accepting  the  services  of  the  disciples  of 
Loyola,  thought  to  get  instruments  for  his  work.    He  re- 
ceived, not  servants  but  a  master.    Loyola  got  the  tools. 
The  Papal  Church  is  but  the  instrument,  the  tool  of  the 
Jesuits — ^the  Beast  on  which  they  ride  to  power  and  con- 
quest.   And  in  recalling  them  after  so  long  a  banishment, 
and  again    making  these    "vigorous  and    experienced 
rowers,"  helmsmen  of  the  ship,  Rome  did  but  confess  her 
weakness  and  inability  to  cope  with  the  increasing  light, 
and  the  progress  of  liberty  and  religion  in  the  nineteenth 
century.    The  world  has  probably  never  seen  a  "  more 
powerful,  corrupt,  untiring,  unscrupulous,  invincible,  or- 
ganization in  any  department  of  human  labor,  or  in  any 
period  of  human  history."    "  Their  moral  code,"  says 
another,   "is  one  of  hypocrisy,  falyeliood    and    filth." 
They  are  enemies  to  all  human  a«i\rancement — would 
turn  back  the  dial  of  human  progress,  and  plunge  the 
world  again  into  the  darkness  oi  the  dark  ages.    Christi- 


.-■yM~tmmi!.rimi>r-« 


THE  STJBTLETI  OP  JESUITISM. 


423 


amtj  encourages  learning,  intelligence  and  mental  im- 
provement among  the  people^it  makes  disdpha.    Jesuit- 
ism suppresses  the  human  mind-makes  instrumente- 
tools  with  which  to  compass  its  own  ends.    It  takes  "  the 
bvmg  man  and  makes  a  corpse  of  him-an  automaton- 
despoils  him  first  of  all  his  free  agency,  and  makes  him  a 
mere  tool  of  the  craft."    The  Jesuit  is  bound  by  no  oath 
-he  may  violate  every  command  of  the  decalogue,  re- 
pudiate every  precept  of  Holy  Writ,  provided  it  be  for 
the  advantage  of  the  society.    The  Pope  must  be  obey- 
ed, the  interests  of  the  Church  seeui-ed.  whatever  despite 
may  be  done  to  God  and  his  truth. 

And  that  he  may  consummate  his  ends  the  Jesuit  may 
rfo  anything,  may  he  anything.  He  may  play  saint  or  sin- 
ner-traitor  or  patrioi^angel  or  devil,  just  as  may  seem 
best  to  subserve  the  purpose  m  hand.  The  Jesuits  are  al- 
lowed, by  their  «  Constitutions,"  to  assume  any  disguise  to 
put  on  any  cWcter-adopt  any  means-use  truth  or 
falsehood-right  or  wrong,  just  as  they  deem  conducive  to 
the  interests  of  the  Church.  Indeed,  they  may  become 
members  of  any  Church  they  please-Baptist,  Methodist 
Jr'resbytenan-may  become  preachers-anything  to  sub- 
sery-  the  purpose  desired. 

In  contemplating,  as  we  propose,  Jesuitism  as  the  most 
subtle  device  of  the  Devil  to  pervert  and  monopolize 
mans  religious  instinct-to  make  the  Romish  apostasy 
the  most  specious  complete  counterfeit  of  Christianity 
the  most  formidable  and  dangerous  antagonist  of  a  pure 
religion  we  can  scarcely  select  a  feature  more  character- 
istic and  more  dangerously  delusive  than  the  unreserved 
dm>twn  of  the  members  of  this  order  to  the  Romish 
Church.    A  devotion  in  a  good  cause  worthy  only  of  im- 
itation and  praise,  but  in  the  cause  of  delusion  and  false- 
hood the  most  fearfully  potent. 
Well  may  Rome  boast  of  the  remarkable  consecration 


PI  I'   ill 


iii 


424 


THE    FOOT-PMNTS  OF  8ATAH. 


to  her  intereste  of  the  disciples  of  Loyok.    They  have 
done  more  to  extend  her  borders,  and  espeoiaUy  to 
cany  out  the  real  animus  of  hbi  is.-^^^ifutions,  than  aU  other 
orders  combined.    They  furnish  the  most  complete  spe- 
cimens of  unreserved  devotion— self-denial,  abnegation  of 
self.    They  brave  every  climate,  encounter  every  hard- 
ship, submit  to  every  privation— take  their  Uves  in  their 
hands  and  go  to  the  ends  of  the  earth.    They  spare  no 
pams  to  subsidize,  m  order  to  the  carrying  out  of  their 
one  great  aim,  talent,  time,  money,  position— all  things  to 
the  cause  they  have  espoused.    No  sect,  claimmg  the 
Christian  name,  has  ever  furnished  an  example  of  such  de- 
votion—an example  so  nearly  up  to  the  New  Testament 
mark.    In  a  good  cause  it  is  worthy  of  all  imitation. 
Had  it  been  imitated,  no  territory  on  earth  would  have 
remamed  unvisited  by  the  missionary,  no  district  without 
tiie  church  and  the  school,  and  no  family  without  the 
Bible. 

"With  them  personal  and  individual  interests,  the 
claims  of  ease  or  of  selfishness,  are  all  merged  in  their  ab- 
sorbing devotion  to  the  honor  and  interests  of  the 
Church.  It  is  a  joy  to  them  to  forsake  the  endearments 
of  early  associations,  to  cross  oceans,  to  i^anetrate  remote 
cUmes,  to  sacrifice  all  the  nobler  ties  of  human  existence, 
to  labor,  and  eventually  die,  as  soUtary  exiles  in  the  most 
dismal  recesses  of  human  abode— all  for  the  aggrandize- 
ment of  the  hierarchy  " 

Most  emphatically,  yet  in  the  worst  sense,  they  become 
"all  things  to  aU  men,"  if  by  any  means,  right  or  wrong, 
they  may  gam  some.  They  accommodate  themselves  to 
aU  classes  of  men,  to  all  conditions  of  hf  e,  to  all  circum- 
stances, wait  with  aU  patience,  though  it  may  be  through 
years  of  apparently  unsuccessful  toil.  They  have  but 
one  idea,,  one  aim,  which  they  pursue  with  an  unswerving 
pt>rseverance.    WhUe  we  cannot  too  earnestly  deprecate 


THE  ANIMUS  OP  JE8UITISIL 


m 


the  meanfl  and  ^e  end  sought  by  such  devotion,  we  can- 

th.i,g  could  more  appropriately  indicate  what  tZ'eK^M 
ie.  andnothmg  under  the  circumstances  is  a  more  Zf 

mshesoneof  the  most  notable  examples  of  what  devotZi 
<oaiad  cause  can  do.    It  is  perhaps  in  aU  its  ft^^ 

«ul  feat  of  Satamo  craft    It  is  the  great  counterfeit  and 
the  great  antagonist  of  a  pure  ChrisLnitj. 

of  Jesu'til""'  r  "T''  °"  ^"^^  *°  8i™  «  *i^ 

and  despotism  the  unblushing  abettor  Tthe  2e  "al^ 
unblushmgly  dishonoring  Christianity  by  a  most  i^^em- 

loojatry.    It  was  m  some  respects,  a  change  in  form, 
ntes,  wondup  and  object  of  worship,  but  in  LrTelyZ 

ha^TLTr"":!!""  *"  *'  '""^-    Here  Je  S 
aeyelopment.    Yet  such  was  the  ignorance  and  deera- 
dation  of  Afnca-such  the  lack  of  Lrature,  sdence^d 

We  n™™«?ft^T'  "'"""'"oristics  of  the  order. 
We  propose  therefore  to  take  our  portraiture  of  Jesuit- 

oumnng,  avance  and  ambition  had  fuU  play,  and  brought 


I(f 


"l 


"ff 


426 


THE  FOOT-PRINTS  OP    SATAN. 


IM- 


forth  their  legitimate  fruits.  "We  cannot  therefore  try 
the  .Tn^v.ais  -nore  favorably  than  on  ground  selected  by 
thr  M5k.iv..— xn  their  most  successful  mission,  where  all 
•  that  wab  pecuUar  in  their  policy  and  principles  had  full 
room  to  develop  itself  unchecked  by  rivalry,  untram- 
melled by  external  interference,  and  remote  from  jealous 
or  hostile  observation." 

In  India  the  Jcsuiib  iound  an  ancient,  organized  and 
aU-powerful  religion  and  comparatively  an  inteUigent  and 
cultivated  priesthood.    The  latter  held  unlimited  control 
over  the  people,  and  indeed  over  the  government.    They 
had  therefore  only  to  ensconce  themselves  in  this  strong- 
hold of  social,  civil,  and  religious  influence,  in  order  to 
work  out  the  schemes  of  their  cr-^ft  to  perfection.    How 
they  did  this,  wiU  best  appear  from  a  brief  narrative  of 
their  famous  mission  in  Southern  India,  more  generaUy 
known  as  the  mission  of  Madura.    The  glory  of  the  Je- 
SJiits  If.  their  missionary  spirit,  and  the   -lory  of  their 
missions  is  the  mission  of  Madura.    Their  writers  speak 
in  the  most  glowing  terms  of  the  fervor  and  self-denial  of 
the  missionaries,  and  of  their  purest  zeal  for  the  conver- 
sion of  the  heathen,  of  the  unparalleled  success  of  the  mis- 
sion in  gathering  in  converts  by  the  tens  of  thousands, 
and  of  the  yet  more  extraordinary  character  of  these  con- 
verts.    "Miracles  were  numerous— rivalry  and  strife  un- 
known, hundreds  of  thousands  were  added  to  the  Church 
and  the  converts  lived  and  died  in  all  the  fervor  of  their 
first  love,  and  with  the  purity  of  the  angels  of  heaven. 
Never  was  the  Christian  Church  so  blessed,  never  so  suc- 
cessful, for  even  the  primitive  Christians  and  the  apostles 
of  Christ  were  inferior  in  self-denial,  in  heavenliness  ^f 
spirit,  and   m  successful  propagation  of  the  gospel." 
The  mission  numbered  150,000  converts.     "  The  least 
each  missionary  baptized  was  a  thousand  a  year."    Fa- 
ther Bouchet  writes  that  he  had  baptized  two  thousand 


mmm 


JESUITS  AND  MISSIONARIEfl. 


427 


the  last  year.    «  After  thej  once  became  Christians  thev 
were  hke  the  angels,  and  the  Church  of  Madura  seems  a 
true  image  of  the  primitive  Church." 
.   We  do  not  question  their  zeal  and  devotion,  and  suc- 
cess m  makmg  converi;s  such  as  they  were.    Their  untir- 
ing  perfleveranoe  and  devotion  is  worthy  of  aU  praise  and 
imitation.    «  They  were  energetic  an  \  laborious  mission- 
anes,  persevering  for  centuries  in  the  pursuit  of  their  ob- 
ject,  «^d  for  that  object  enduring  privations,  persecutions, 
even  death  itself,  with  a  courage  and  constancy  beyond 
aU  praise.    But  alas  I  for  the  perversion  of  these  noble 
qualities  until  they  became  a  curse  instead  of  a  blessing 
But  who  were  these  missionaries?    What  were  their 
pnnciples-their  line  of  policy?    What  the  amount  and 
character  of  their  success  ?    And  what  the  real  character 
of  their  converts?    Were  they  converts  to  Christianitv 
or  only  converts  from  one  class  of  idols  to  another-from 
one  set  of  rites  and  superstitions  to  another,  not  less 
puerile  or  impure  ? 

Who  were  these  missionaries  ?    It  will  quite  suffice  to 
say  they  were  Jesuits,  governed  by  their  own  peculiar 
pohcy,  selfish,  crafty,  unscrupulous.    And  never  had  they 
a  fairer  field  and  never  did  they  address  themselves  to 
their  work  with  more  adroitness,  and  smgleness  of  aim 
and  with  more  untiring  perseverance.    Nowhere    else 
perhaps  did  they  so  completely  personate  themselves  and 
Illustrate  the  principles  of  the  fraf omity.    It  is  readily 
conceded  that  these  were  men  of  ability,  well  born  and 
highly  educated,  men  of  undaunted  courage,  for  «  during 
a  century  and  a  half  they  fought  against  aU  things,  sacred 
and  profane,  models  for  missionaries  in  zeal,  in  devotion 
to  their  work,  in  self-sacrifice,  in  acquaintance  with  lan- 
guages, manners  and  habits  of  the  people,  and  therefore 
itia  impossible  not  to  lament  and  abhor  the  accursed 
policy  of  which  they  were  the  willing  victims,  and  which 


II 


!IJ4. 


aJ'- 


428 


THE  FOOT-raiNTS  OF  SATAN. 


Will  render  their  names  and  their  histoiy,  to  aU  suooeed- 
ing  ages,  beacons  of  ruin  and  disgraoe."  But  we  are 
pnnoipally  concerned  to  inquire  what  were  the  govem- 
uig  prmoiples-what  the  hneof  poUoy  pursued  by  these 
Indian  Missionaries  ?  In  reply  we  need  quote  but  a 
Bmg  e  paragraph  from  the  Jesuit  Jouvenoy's  history 
of  the  order.  The  reader  will  at  once  discover  the 
esprit  de  corps  of  this  extraordinary  mission,  and  at 
the  same  time  read  its  history  in  its  very  origin. 

"Father  Robert  de  Nobilibus,  the  founder  of  the  mis- 
sion, perceiving  the   strong  prejudice  of   the  natives 
against  Europeans,  and  believing  it  to  be  invincible,  de- 
termmed  to  conceal  his  real  origin,  and  to  enter  among 
them  a^  one  of  themselves.     For  the  purpose,  he  ap- 
phed  himself  diligently  to  the  study  of  the  native  lan- 
guage, manners  and  customs;  and  having  gained  over  a 
Brahmin  to  assist  him,  he  made  himself  master  of  the 
usages  and  customs  of  the  sect,  even  to  the  most  minute 
details.     Thus  prepared  for  his  undertaking,  and  forti- 
fied besides  with  a  written  document,  probably  forged 
by  himself  or  by  his  companion,  he  entered  Madura 
not  as  a  Christian  Missionary,  but  as  a  Brahmin  of  a 
superior  order,  who  had  come  among  them  to  restore 
the  most  ancient  form  of  their  religion.    His  success 
however  was  not  at  first  complete ;  and  the  chief  of  the 
lirahmms,  in  a  large  assembly  convened  for  the  pur- 
pose, accused  him  pubhcly,  as  an  impostor,  who  sought  to 
demve  thejpeople  by  lies,  in  order  to  introduce  a  new  religim, 
into    the   country;    upon   which  Nobilibus  produced  a 
written  scroll,  and  in  the  presence  of  all  protested,  and 
MADE  OATH  that  he  had  verily  sprung  from  the  god 
iiranma.     Three  Brahmins,  overpowered  by  such  strong 
evidence,  then  rose  and  persuaded  their  brethren  not  to 
persecute   a  man   who  called  himself  a  Brahmin    and 
proved  he  was  so  by  written  evidence  and  solemn  oaths, 


I  snooeed- 
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by  these 
te  but  a 
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over  the 
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Madura, 
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MISSION  OF  MADURA.  409 

he  next  gave  himself  out  to  be  a  Sunvaaee  »r,T.      .7' 
.ematade,  of  hi,  life  kept  up  t^rZT^J,^^^: 

^tJ^I^^      'H"^^^^"^^  '"*«  Hindoo  god. 
aess— tie  worship  of  saints  and  anoola  ft>,  iv.i    <  rC 

01  Me,  pnnty  of  heart,  or  reverence  for  God.  his  servip- 

ounjasees  afforded  no  more  test  of  character  and  wa. 
followed  by  no  reformation  of  manners,  and  pr^led  to 
the  world  no  evidence  that  the  new  ;eligir  p^^ 
m  moral  snperiorily  over  the  long  venerated  reh^ 

egg.  nor  cooked  r^tM^X^Z^LT":, "'  T^"  *«*'  **• 

grow,  ™b  u.eT^^'iL  s«ir:^°"  ^r  '?°°"r  ■ "« *«^  ^^^ 

eeieiiiMiie.mnnm.BiM.  and  seyere.        *"""*"°^  "^Pe"*"™""* 


f 


!il! 


430 


THE    FOOT-PMNTS  OP  SATAN. 


the  country.    This  will  appear  the  more  obvious  as  we 
inquire  next — 

What  was  the  amount,  and  what  the  real  character  of 
the  success  of  this  India  mission?  No  doubt  they  num- 
bered a  large  multitude  of  converts,  and  gained  great 
power,  and  accumulated  immense  wealth.  M.  Martin, 
Governor  of  Poudicherry,  asserts  that  the  Jesuits  carried 
on  an  immense  commerce — Father  Tachard  had,  at  one 
time,  account  with  the  French  Company  to  the  amount 
of  500,000  livres,  and  that  the  Company's  vessels  trans- 
ported largely  for  the  Jesuits.  Yet  they  made  a  large 
number  of  converts  and  wielded  a  tremendous  power  in 
India  for  a  hundred  and  fifty  years — converts,  as  I  have 
said,  not  to  Christianity,  but  to  a  modified  and  nominaUy 
changed  system  of  idolatry. 

Our  narrative  of  the  Madura  missioD  furnishes  ample 
illustrations  of  the  character  of  the  Christianity  there  in- 
troduced. Take  for  example  a  description  of  a  Christ- 
ian procession  on  a  grand  festival  day  in  honor  of  the 
Virgin  Mary.  It  is  as  completely  heathen,  as  any  one 
who  has  witnessed  these  processions  in  India  very  well 
knows,  as  any  procession  in  honor  of  the  Hindoo  goddess. 
It  is  thus  described,  reminding  one  of  the  famous  Jugger- 
naut. 

"  An  immense  car  approaches,  covered  with  silk  awn- 
ings, and  gaudily  decked  with  flowers.  It  is  dragged 
slowly  on  its  creaking  wheels  by  a  tumultuous  crowd,  and 
surmounted  by  a  Female  Figure.  She  has  on  her  head 
the  Tirabashi,  a  ring  through  her  nose,  and  round  her 
neck  a  sacred  nuptial  collar.  On  each  side  of  her  are 
men  with  parasols  in  their  hands,  and  one  holds  a  napkin, 
with  which  he  carefully  drives  away  the  mosquitoes. 
The  car  is  preceded  by  dancers,  half  naked,  and  streaked 
with  sandal  wood  and  vermilion.  Wild  shouts  ring 
through  the  air  and  the  ear  is  stunned  with  a  confused 


CHBISTUNITY  PAGANIZED. 


431 


din  of  horns,  trumpets,  tom-toms,  kettle-drums  and  other 
instruments  of  music.  It  is  night,  but  (besides  a  grand 
lUumination  and  the  blaze  of  innumerable  torches)  rock- 
ets, wheels,  roman  candles,  and  other  fireworks  in  *he 
construction  of  which  the  Hindoos  excel,  shoot  up  in 
every  direction.  The  crowd  is  of  the  usually  motley  de- 
scription—and  all  with  characteristic  marks  of  idolatry. 
The  car  is  the  gift  of  a  heathen  prince,  the  dancers  and 
many  of  the  musicians  are  borrowed  fi-om  the  nearest  pa- 
goda, the  spectators  are  idolaters,  but  the  woman  repre- 
sents the  Virgin  Mary  1  And  the  actors  in  this  scandalous 
scene  are  the  Christians  of  Madura  !"* 

How  readily  the  Christians  and  heathen  associated  on 
such  occasions.  Father  Martin  tells  us  :  «  The  chief  man 
of  the  place  with  his  family,  and  the  other  heathen  who 
were  present  in  the  procession,  j^ostrated  themselves 
three  times  before  the  image  of  the  Christian  goddess, 
and  adored  it  in  a  manner  which  happily  blended  them 
with  the  most  fervent  of  the  Christians."  And  what  was 
the  result— shall  we  say  what  was  the  mcyral  influence  of 
such  scenes?  Our  historian  proceeds:  "Immediately 
followed,  as  usual,  a  great  number  of  lajptimis  I  Indeed, 
processions  and  dances  were  favorite  methods  of  conver- 
sion with  the  Jesuits." 

As  we  have  seon,  the  heathen  join  in  the  procession  of  " 
the  Madura  Christians  and  respond  in  aloud  amen  to  the 
rites  of  their  worship,  so,  as  we  turn  to  a  veritable  pro- 
cession of  idolaters,  we  meet  the  same  Madura  Christians 
"with  cymbals  and  trumpets,  with  kettle  drums  and 
horns,  loudest  in  Devil-worship."  Those  "angeUc  men 
who  rarely  commit  a  venial  sin,  and,  from  their  horror 
of  idolatry,  scruple  to  pass  by  a  neathen  temple,"  now 
gather  around  the  heathen  idol,  "as  loud  and  busy  as  the 
most  zealous  of  its  worshippers." 

"A  Wamono  vbou  xhb  East,"  by  Bev.  W.  S.  Maokay. 


Jp 


432 


THE  FOOT-PBINTS  OF  aiTAN. 


Nor  was  this  all,  says  our  narrative.  The  distinctions 
of  caste  were  rigorously  observed  among  the  Ohristians. 
The  Pariahs  had  separate  churches,  fonts,  confessionals 
and  communion-tables,  marriages  were  celebrated  be- 
tween children  seven  years  old,  and  with  nearly  the 
whole  idolatrous  ceremonial  of  the  heathen.  Christians 
and  heathen  wore  the  same  tokens  of  idolatry,  observed 
essentially  the  same  rites,  performed  the  same  ablutions, 
both  using  the  very  same  prayers  while  bathing,  ad- 
dressed to  the  idols  of  the  heathen.  Which  was  the  Bo- 
man  Sunyasee  and  which  tlie  Pagan — which  the  Madura 
Christian  and  which  the  Hindoo  idolater — ^the  unprao- 
ticed  eye  could  not  discern.. 

But  what  was  the  result  ?  Did  real  Christianity  make 
any  progress  there  ?  Did  the  angel,  bearing  the  good 
tidings,  find  there  any  resting-place  for  the  sole  of  her 
foot  ?  Or  was  it  simply  a  demonstration  of  Jesuitism,  a 
gigantic  attempt  to  counterfeit  Christianity,  to  forestall 
the  rising  missionary  spirit  of  the  seventeenth  century, 
and  to  monopolize  the  great  missionary  field  of  the  East 
which  was  now  fast  passing  into  the  hands  of  a  great 
Protestant  nation  ?  Well  may  it  be  said,  Satan's  seat  is 
there.  Nowhere  else  has  he  such  vast  multitudes  of  im- 
mortal souls  bound  hand  and  foot  in  the  chains  of  iax 
ancient,  long  venerated,  all-coi?trolling  system  of  false  re- 
ligion. Christianity,  now  renovated  and  energized  by  tJie 
Reformation,  was  about  to  take  wings  for  her  flight  over 
the  nations.  It  was  to  forestall  the  approaching  inva- 
sions of  the  religion  of  Calvary — sacrilegiously  to  baptize 
the  followers  of  Brahma  in  the  name  of  Chiist,  yet  pre- 
serve unimpaired  the  spirit  of  the  Arch-Foe — that  the  Je- 
suits were  inspired  to  make  this  bold  and  desperate  at- 
tempt to  anticipate  and  foil  the  laboirs  of  the  coming  am- 
bassadors of  the  Cross. 


4 


THE  ANIMUS  OP  JESUITISM. 


433 


And  for  a  time  they  seemed  to  pro^^jer.  But  the  day 
of  inquisition  came.  The  strong  man  armed  kept  his 
goods  till  a  stronger  than  he  came  and  took  away  the  ar- 
mor wherein  he  trusted.  The  Jesuits  lost  their  power. 
The  order  was  suppressed.  Then  what  became  of  Ma- 
dura Christians  and  of  the  bold  experiment  in  India  ? 
Only  twenty  years  had  elapsed  and  these  native  Christ- 
ians are  described  by  the  Romish  writer  Fra  Bartolomeo 
as  "being  in  the  lowest  state  of  superstition  and  igno- 
rance." The  account  he  gives  of  their  morals,  especially 
of  the  catechists  and  native  clergy,  is  literally  too 
gross  for  transcription."  The  evidence  of  the  Abbe  Du- 
bois, (another  Romish  authority)  is  not  a  whit  more  fa- 
vorable. In  his  celebrated  letters  are  to  be  found  in- 
stances of  superstitions  and  ignorance  scarcely  exceeded 
even  in  the  reign  of  the  Jesuits,  and  he  makes  the  right- 
ful admission  that,  "  during  a  period  of  twenty  years  that 
he  had  familiarly  conversed  with  them,  lived  with  them 
as  their  religious  teacher  and  spiritual  guide,"  he  would 
"  hardly  dare  affirm  that  he  had  anywhere  met  one  sin- 
cere and  undisguised  Christian." 

WhUe  Jesuitism  failed  to  scatter  in  that  benighted  land 
the  seeds  of  a  pure  Christianity,  or  to  make  disciples  of 
Jesus,  it  worked  out  a  purpose  in  Providence  which  we 
would  not  overlook.  It  showed  up  the  real  animus  of  Je- 
suitism more  distinctly  than  ever  had  been  before.  Its 
power,  its  unscrupulous  policy,  its  disregard  of  the  most 
solemn  oaths,  and  of  all  moral  obligations  where  the  in- 
terests of  their  society,  or  of  the  Church  demand  it ;  its 
avarice,  its  ambition  and  intolerance  all  found  the  most 
unrestrained  development  in  this  propitious  field.  We 
may  accept  this  as  the  masterpiece  of  that  wisdom  which 
worketh  among  the  children  of  disobedience. 

And  the  illustration  is  not  the  less  striking  of  the  sin- 

28 


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434 


THE  FOOT-PRINTS  OP  8ATAN. 


gal&r  devotedness  and  sacrifice  and  self-denial  and  un- 
faltering perseverance  of  these  devotees  of  Loyola. 
How  much  more  ought  the  true  disciple  of  Jesus,  who 
has  been  bought  at  an  infinite  price— saved  by  blood 
divine— to  make  a  full  and  unreserved  consecration  to  his 
divine  Lord  and  Master.  Go  anywhere,  do  anything 
make  any  sacrifice. 

We  have  reproduced  the  above  brief  sketch  of  Jesuit- 
ism, as  an  example,  though  an  incomplete  one,  of  what 
this  order  reaUy  is.    But  has  not  Jesuitism  changed  with 
the  progress  of   civilization  and  the    advciucement  of 
Christianity?    We  have  not  the  slightest  ground  for 
such  a  suspicion.    Like  the  Papacy  it  changes  not.    In 
the  remstatement  of  the  Jesuits  in  1814  we  hear  of  no 
modifications  of  their  "Constitutions,"  no  change  of 
then:  pnnciples,  aims,  or  policy.    Never,  we  believe,  had 
these  wUy,  ever-aggressive  Janissaries  of  Rome,  a  more 
Oi)en  field,  or  were  they  more  on  the  aleri:  of  activity, 
than  at  the  present  moment  in  America.    Never  more 
than  now  was  the  Jesuit  "  going  about  seeking  whom  he 
may  devour."    Never  has  his  power  been  less  Kmited  or 
imrestramed  than  in  our  own  free  country.    Like  the 
frogs  of  Egypt  the  Jesuits  are  in  our  houses,  in  our  bed- 
chambers, in  our  kitchens  and  kneading-troughs— in  our 
schools  and  coUeges-in  our  Churches  and  legislatures 
They  have  not  k)st  one  iota  of  their  cunning,  adroitness 
or  exhaustless  activity.    They  will  go  anywhere-will  do 
anythmg— submit  to  any  sacrifice-6e  anything,  which 
may  seem  best  to  subserve  their  own  interests.    And  what 
are  these  interests  ?    Just  what  they  always  were— to 
gam  power,  to  control  the  destinies  of  the  nation-  to 
brmg  aU  men  into  abject  subjection  to  the  despotism  of 
Rome ;  to  monopolize  talent,  money,  position ;  to  enslave 
the  people,  and  ezalt  the  hierarchy.    It  ia  to  turn  back 


to 


THE  JESUITS  UNOHANGINO.  435 

the  dial  of  time  a  thousand  vears fr.  o«.«„i.  xi. 

«*  „•  -v     ,.  ""uoauu  jears — to  axrest  the  Droffl-enq 

of  civilization,  and  of  civil  and  relieioua  lihAr+i^V^T 


•  I! 


XXI. 
THE  DEVIL  IN  MAN. 


low  ALT.  HIS  APPETITES,  ASPIRATIONS,  CAPABILITIES,  AND 
SUSCEPTIBILITIES  AEE  PERVERTED —- MAN  MADE  RIGHT, 
BUT  BY  THE  ENEMY  LAID  IN  RUINS— MORE  OP  THE  FOOT- 
Pat3TS  OP  THE  DEVIL— THE  SINNER  A  SELP-DESTROYER. 

We  need  not  go  abroad  into  the  wide  world  for  our 
lUustrations.    The  litUe  world  called  man  will  serve  our 
purpose  quite  as  well.    We  have  seen  by  what  a  whole- 
sale monopoly  Satan  has  subordinated 'to  his  vile  pur- 
poses the  "  good  things  "  of  the  world.    All  things,  as 
they  came  from  the  hand  of  God,  were  by  infinite  wisdom 
pronounced  "good."    They  were  in  aU  their  bearings, 
workings  and  results,  exactly  adapted  to  secure  the  hap- 
piness and  the  highest  good  of  man.    The  laws  of  nature 
in  all  their  natural  workings,  and  the  resources  of  nature 
in  all  their  varied  uses,  contribute  most  directly  and  effec- 
tually to  this  end.    All  natural  evil  (so  called)  is  but  a 
perversion  and  abuse  of  natural  good.    And  this  perver- 
sion is  solely  the  handiwork  of  our  Enemy. 

We  have  seen  what  desolations  he  hath  made  in  the 
earth— what  corroding  evils,  oppressions,  frauds,  what 
wars,  fammes,  pestilences— what  untold  calamities,  so- 
cial, civil,  domestic,  are  inflicted  by  his  unrelenting  hand. 
How  wealth,  talent,  the  press,  religion— all  the  world's 


SAMOOT  OF  TBE  NATDBE  im>  BORAI.  «7 

powers,  though  in  themselvm  stt^A  * 
prostituted  to  evil  hT™ '*^^ *"  P"'*™^  8«"1.  «« 
sadly  devoted  Tthe^e^oe T"''  *"^'  ''"^^^=' »» 
God.  In  narroX  th!^^  ,  T"""""  ""*  "">*  «"(» 
little  world  C^™^eS:^ll°'  °'>^™«°"  down  to  the 
tie  less  BtmZ     J^^^'  ?  ""««» illustrations  not 

the^.«odof tlSf worre^:^^;i^^r  ''-  ^ 

made  up  of  body  an.1  ««ni      .j-  We  find  hun 

and  of  body  of  «ff?.r-        7^-  ^"^  ^'"='i<»»  »f  mind 
ties/andT^rp^f^traff   '"'''  T'"*^'  "-"^ 

1^  being.    He  has,  too"  rotrenl*"^  ''""'"  ^""*  " 

-^^f::i:Xtf''ur°rV''^""'''«^^''->^ 

-^od  pronounTed    u't^o  bt^'o ':d.-°B'^  'T^  *''^«»- 
been  created  in  the  imL  of  a.^'    -,^  """  ''"'* 

place  as  lord  of  .liTirer  e^ata   G  7  ""^V' "' 
emphatie    .-Behold,"  ^eolZ'Tu,^  :^:Ztj^. 

-orld-i,^t.s.'LrC':«  I^f '^,'".6  '°  '"«  ■"*'*"»• 
worked  good  a^d  oX  lood If  ,T  ''' '°"''*  '"'™ 
m^hmore  would  e4t!Ll^r!:L7Zr  ■''^- 
oive  to  human  Happiness,  and  to  the  honor  of  God 


438 


TBI  FOOT-PBINTB  OP  SATAN. 


peoalty  of  disobedience?  An  answer  to  these  queries 
will  further  disclose  what  desolations  our  enemy  hath 
made  in  this,  the  noblest  workmanship  of  God.  If  it 
shall  appear,  from  man's  original  conformation— from 
man,  contemplated  as  the  handiwork  of  God,  that  he  is 
so  formed  that  obedience  to  the  laws  of  his  nature  secures 
happiness,  and  violation  certain  misery,  then  we  must 
conclude  that  the  divine  law  and  the  laws  of  the  hu- 
man constitution  harmonize.  Obedience  in, either  case 
equally  tends  to  prosperity,  happiness,  honor  and  life 
temporal  and  eternal,  and  violation  ending  inevitably  in 
dishonor,  misery  and  death. 

The  moral  law,  as  summarily  contained  in  the  Deca- 
logue, "  has  its  foundation  in  the  nature  and  relations  of 
intelligent  beings."  That  is,  it  is  based  on  the  nature  of 
man  and  on  the  character  of  God,  involving  the  rela- 
tions in  which  we  stand  to  God,  and  to  one  another. 
And  if  so,  then  the  duties  imposed  and  enforced  by  the 
divine  law  are  essentially  the  same  as  the  duties  which 
result  from  our  relations  to  our  fellow  men  and  to  the  ma- 
terial world.  Consequently  a  violation  of  the  law  of  our 
natures  is  a  violation  of  the  moral  law. 

Whether,  then,  we  examine  the  structure  of  the  body, 
or  the  nicer  workmanship  of  the  soul,  we  are  brought  to 
the  same  conclusion.  As  health,  happiness  and  success 
in  life  are  suspended  on  obedience  to  the  k>  ws  of  our 
physical  constitution,  so  all  moral  good  is  suspended  on 
obedience  to  the  laws  of  our  moral  constitution. 

A  brief  analysis  of  some  of  the  constituent  parts  of 
man  will  furnish  ample  illustration  of  the  devastation  of 
the  Destroyer.  In  the  example  adduced,  the  diabolical 
perversiom  whereby  the  enemy  makes  the  field  on  which 
the  Master  has  sown  the  good  seed,  to  bring  forth  tares, 
the  reader  will  but  too  surely  detect  the  foot-prints  of  the 
Adversary. 


HAPPINB8S  AND  BODILY  EXERCISB. 


439 


The  Jive  senses,  for  example,  are  so  formed  by  the  great 
Architect  as  to  be  so  many  inlets  of  happiness  to  the  in- 
ixer  man— channels  of  communication  with  the  outer 
world— not  merely  of  knowledge  which  gives  happiness, 
but  of  happmess  direct.  And,  what  is  not  a  little  to  be 
admired  ^s  a  further  evidence  that  Gk)d,  in  the  formation 
of  man,  designed  him  for  happiness,  is  that  external  nature 
should  be  so  admirably  adapted  to  the  physical  and  mo- 
ral constitution  of  man  as  to  make  all  his  intercourse 
with  the  external  world  a  source  of  unmixed  happiness. 
The  reason  it  is  not  so,  is  not  from  any  defect  ir  the  ori- 
ginal arrangement,  but  from  a  perversion  of  ii 

The  seme  of  seeing  is  given,  not  simply  that  we  may,  by 
the  exercise  of  vision,  form  an  acquaintance  with  exter- 
nal nature  and  faciliate  our  intercourse  with  our  fellow 
men,  and  through  such  knowledge  and  intercourse  indi- 
rectly realize  much  substantial  happiness,  but  it  is  given 
as  a  source  of  luxury,  that  we  might  thereby  enjoy  the 
beauties  of  nature  about  us.  And  so  with  the  sense  of 
hearing.  It  is  not  merely  a  source  of  utility  but  of  pleas- 
ure. It  is  the  channel  that  conveys  sweet  sounds  to  the 
soul.  It  is  a  charmer.  The  evil  spirit  of  Saul  was  tamed 
by  music.  There  is  a  charm  in  the  soft  notes  of  harmony 
which  melts  the  most  ferocious  soul.  The  serpent  tribe 
are  not  insensible  to  the  enchanting  sounds  of  music. 
They  are  charmed  by  them. 

And  so  we  may  say  of  the  sense  of  smelling.  It  is  not 
simply  &  feeler  by  which  to  detect  what  from  without  is 
disagreeable,  or  what  would  be  hurtful  to  the  stomach, 
or  injurious  to  the  lungs,  but  it  is  another  channel  by 
which  to  convey  to  the  immortal  tenant  within,  the  sweet 
odors  of  nature's  most  delicate  works.  And  so  Ukewise 
with  the  senses  of  taste  and  feding.  They  serve  the 
double  purpose  of  jorotection  and  pleasure,  indicating  the 
benevolent  design  of  the  divine  Author,  and  proving 


^^  THE  FOOT-PRINTS  OP  SATAN. 

i 

beyond  controversy  that  God  intends'  man  should  be 
happy.-Else  why  do  we  find  him  the  author  of  such  an 
arrangement  ?     Why    in    the  external  world  so  much 
beauty,  and  the  eye  capable  of  beholding  and  appreciat- 
mg  It,  and  conveying  an  agreeable  sensation  to  the  soul  ? 
Why  so  many  sweets-and  the  taste  so  exactly  suited  to 
extract  them  for  the  luxury  of  the  inner  man  ?    Whv  so 
many  ple^ant  odors,  and  the  organs  of  ameU  so  complete- 
ly adapted  to  inhale  them  for  the  regaling  the  inhabi- 
tant withm  ?    And  why  so  many  agreeable  objects  of 
contact,  and  the  touch  so  admirably  fitted  to  carry  pleas- 
Ant  impressions  to  the  soul  ? 

God  has,  again,  established  a  connection  between  huv 
pir^ss  md  hodUy  exercise.  He  has  nerved  the  arm  with 
strength,  and  then  made  the  exercise  of  this  strength 
conducive  to  happiness.  Not  only  is  bodily  exercise  the 
procuniig  cause  of  our  sustenance,  and  the  means  by 
which  to  gather  about  us  the  comforts  and  luxuries  of 
life  but  the  direct  means  of  health,  physical  and  moral- 
and  consequently  of  happiness. 

But  we  shall  find  examples  equaUy  abundant,  and  more 
in  pomt  if  we  look  for  a  moment  into  man's  moral  consti- 

Our  first  example  we  wiU  take  from  the  existmce  of  cm- 
so,^  Man  has  a  conscience,  nor  is  this  an  accidental 
property  of  the  soul,  but  a  constituent  part  of  the  system. 
It  IS  the  mn  in  that  system.  Its  office  is  to  erdi^htm  and  rvk. 
Enthroned  amidst  the  lesser  faculties  of  the  mind  as  a 
supreme.lawgiver  and  judge,  she  promulges  laws,  Enfor- 
ces duties  and  executes  penalties.  The  will,  the  passions, 
the  affecfaons,  and  the  whole  mental  train  are  placed  at 
:3  1,         ^^"^'^^^ds,  approves,  rebukes,  rewards, 

nlr""!    ^'f'^'*^^  *°*^"  "^^^^g  integrity  of  he; 
nature.    And  it  is  a, matter  of  fact  to  which  all  who  have 

attended  to  the  operations  of  their  own  conscience  will 


SUPREMAOY  OP  OONSOIENOE.  ^ 

w«ds  God  id  .^.  rthro:,™u'':':/tri  ""^  *"■ 

and  moral  purity  ^  ^^  *°  liappiness 

our  nature  as  doTolopod  t^fti,'    ^  nf^"'^  ""f  '""  <" 
tution-wliat,  in  a  word    h„     ^T     ,  "^  *"""'  """"ti- 

piness  in  this  world,  and  to  lav  In  T^  J f  ™"' '"'P" 
tion  for  infinite  felicity  in  the  w»ld  to"::;"''!  'r^' 
amine  a  few  of  her  sanctions        """'"""«'    Letusei- 

affXtdr reL-ii  rrer:hti.%\«?-  *"« 

the  riolation  of  a^;  kw  ^  tI     "  '^'''™'"'™  »'  «  «■«» 

over  the  conscientlTd  the' LSt;:'r^' 
and  the  consequent  perversion  of  tto  ment!^  f  !°"°"^ 
the  very  root  and  matter  of  sin  ^'""' " 

^^ed  We  and  grati;^^ -n-otdire  ^TZ' 

r^hfcreTurdutir^r;  ^^r' '"-.'^^^^^^ 

love.    Against  all  these  T^J,^TZ7^  ^f  "".'"'^ 
son,  too,  throws  the  weight  of  Wfl  "^^'^^    ^^ 

of  conscience.    We  tlefhave  .  ™'  """  '^«  ^"^'^ 

w  reason,  ^^^mZ'z:"::^^-^^^-^: 
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defeated.  Whoeyer,  therefore,  yields  obedience  to  tho 
laws  of  his  conscience,  meets  the  approbation  of  his  God. 
Whoever  violates  these  laws  forfeits  the  divine  favor. 

And,  (wh4t  is  not  less  to  our  purpose,)  not  only  are  the 
duties  imposed  by  conscience  good  in  themadvea — ^produc- 
tive of  peace,  good  orde^-  and  happiness,  but  the  per- 
farmawx  of  them  is  aUxvaya  attended  toith  pleamraUe 
emotuma  to  the  performer.  Whereas  the  course  dictated 
by  the  heart  is  neither  good  in  itself,  nor  its  pursuit 
attended  with  any  continued  or  substantial  happiness. 

As  another  part  of  our  moral  constitution  we  may  re- 
fer to  the  benevolent  affediom.  God  has  inserted  in  the 
very  framework  of  our  being  the  feelings  of  compaasuMy 
sympathy t  kindness  and  benevdence.  He  has  made  the 
exercise  of  these  productive  of  happiness,  while  the  vio- 
lation of  their  laws  is  the  direct  road  to  discomfort  and 
misery. 

Take  compassion',  a  wretched  object  is  presented-^the 
eight  of  whose  wretchedness  instantly  elicits  the  feelings 
of  compassion,  a  feeling  natural  to  man,  or  composing  a 
part  of  its  original  constitution.  This  may  exist  more  or 
less  vividly,  owing,  perhaps,  to  a  want  of  due  exercise. 
It  may  be  more  or  less  quick  in  its  operation.  But  the 
sight  of  wretchedness  draws  it  out.  This  is  a  law  of  our 
nature.  Yet  it  may  be  nipped  in  the  bud  by  avarice  or 
some  other  chilling  product  of  selfishness,  and  thus  this 
benevolent  law  of  our  nature  to  be  overruled.  But  sup- 
pose this  law  to  be  obeyed  and  we  shall  see  a  result  full 
of  happiness. 

The  sight  of  wretchedness,  I  said,  excites  compassion. 
By  the  side  of  compassion  hes  sympathy,  who,  awakened 
by  the  moving  of  her  sister  compassion,  arisen;,  and 
makes  common  cause  with  the  suffering  object,  bathes 
hi^ii  in  her  tears,  feels  his  wounds  and  his  wants,  enlists 
the  aid  of  kindness  and  calls  up  benevolence.    Now  if  we 


LAWS  OP  NATURE  OONTRATENED. 


i43 


analyze  these  different  processes,  we  sliaU  find  happiness 
to  be  the  result  of  them  aU.    First,  we  have  the  influence 
produced  in  the  bosom  of  the  giver-ihe  one  who  affords 
toe  rehef,  a  thing  entirely  separate  from  the  influence  on 
the  receiver.    The  exercise  of  compassion,  the  kindly  in- 
terposition of  sympathy,  the  lovely  reachings  forth  of  be- 
nevolence, are  all  pleasurable  emotions,  springing  up 
in  the  breast  of  the  giver,  and  diffusing  sweetness  and 
serenity  through  the  whole  man.    These  are  fragrant 
flowers,  which  first  bless  the  soil  where  they  grow,  then 
dehgiit  the  eye  of  tiie  beholder,  then  send  forth  their 
sweet  odors. 

^  And,  in  addition  to  this,  there  is  the  no  less  beautifying 
influence  on  the  receiver.  His  temporal  wants  aresuiv 
phed-his  wretchedness  removed  or  mitigated,  and  a 
portion  of  happiness  is  thus  secured.  But  this  is  only  a 
smaU  part.  A  string  is  touched  in  his  heart  which  beats 
m  unison  with  that  of  the  giver.  His  grateful  heart 
bursts  forth  m  spontaneous  effusions  of  good  will  and  is 
responded  to  in  the  kindly  affections  of  his  benefactor. 
Thus  an  influence,  like  a  cloud  of  sweet  hallowed  incense, 
distilhng  in  its  course  the  dew  drops  of  celestial  happi- 
ness,  IS  diffused  around  on  every  side-diffused  from 
two  points,  first  from  the  giver,  then  from  the  receiver 

This  is  acting  in  obedience  to  the  laws  of  our  'nature 
This  IS  as  things  would  be  but  for  the  derangements  of 
sin.    What  an  evU  then  is  sin!    How  productive   of 
misery  I    And  what  a  happy  world  this  would  be,  and 
what  never-failing  and  eternal  happiness  man  had  de- 
oured,  had  he  in  all  things  obeyed  the  laws  of  his  constitu- 
tion.   Were  every  object  of  wretchedness  aUowed   to 
exert  its  legitimate  influence  on  the  spectator,  in  eliciting 
his  compassion,  accompanied  by  sympathy  and  foUowed 
up  by  the  benevolent  act,  and  were  every  act  of  benevo- 
lence met  with  a  corresponding  gratitude  and  good  will 


4M 


THE  POOT-PRINTS  OP  SATAN. 


on  the  part  of  the  receiver,  how  soon  would  the  aniver- 
sal  dominion  of  benevolence  commence  in  this  world- 
how  soon  the  hearts  of  aU  be  bound  together  in  the 
golden  chains  of  love — how  soon  heaven  be  begun  on 
earth  1 

But  suppose— what,  alas  1  is  too  generally  the  fact 

that  the  opposite  be  true — that  conscience  be  dethroned, 
her  dictates  unheeded,  her  laws  trampled  under  foot,  her 
ways,  which  are  ways  of  pleasantness,  be  spumed — sup- 
poise  the  benevolent  affections,  as  they  attempt  to  flow 
forth  in  their  silver  currents,  dispensing  fertility  and  joy 
on  either  side,  be  arrested  by  a  seditious,  disorganizing 
train  of  selfish  passions,  what  then  are  we  to  expect  as 
the  natural  and  necessary  result  ? 

Suppose  wretchedness  fail  to  excite  compassion,  and 
sympathy,  hushed  to  sleep  by  selfishness,  'refuse  to 
awake,  and  benevolence,  chained  hand  and  foot  by  the 
demon,  covetousness,  come  not  to  the  aid  of  the  suffer- 
ing, what  now  will  follow  ?  Instead  of  that  divine  sere- 
nity which  pervaded  the  mind  before— instead  of  that 
celestial  happiness  that  sent  up  its  sweet  incense  through 
all  the  inner  man,  there  would  be,  on  the  one  hand,  obdu- 
racy of  heart,  want  of  pity,  a  sense  of  meanness,  self- 
degradation  and  vexation,  and  a  host  of  selfish  passions, 
tormenting  in  themselves,  and  putting  into  the  hands  of 
conscience  so  many  scourges  by  which  to  inflict  her 
scorpion  lashes. 

Then,  instead  of  the  golden  chain  of  love  that  bound 
together  giver  and  receiver,  we  find  the  object  of  wretch- 
edness cut  off  from  the  sympathies  he  thinks  his  due, 
now  writhing  afresh  under  the  tormenting  passions  of 
hatred,  envy,  jealousy  or  malignity.  Were  the  laws 
of  our  nature  always  thus  to  be  contravened,  what 
heartburnings,  what  tumults,  what  natural  hatred  would 
fill  our  world  1    How  would  the  fires  of  the  Pit   be 


BU>  PASmONEL 


*4B 


Hndled  on  earth.    Dis«„  ,,  ^,  j^  ^  ^^^^^  ^ 
ot'l^  ZZ'ZTt'  "r^  <"  ^  •»  -  element 

£.  nothing  is  he  more  on  the  ale^l":^"  "°™? -^T 
binds  his  ^"^Xrsn.Toft';:^'""^  "'  ■«"•« 

envy  said  iealousij     T»,«oo  „     *'*''^«*^«»F-Mfe  and  mn%, 

diyinehand.    iLl^tt!!:^-,^     ™^""»«tip  ot  a 

<»rr.-fi«  fl«  ^   L  ^      **®®P-    -^^^  worse  and  more 

natoal  world,  removing  rooks  from  thefr  ZZov^r 

qnent  derangemL^Sr^ri  S:nlrs^t:i::r 
moredis^tr^us,  a  more  deranging  ^™k,1„TXl3 
deluge  which  swept  over  it  when  the  fieo'  fl^  rf 


n 


THE  voorr-rsnsen  or  satan. 


sin  burst  forth  from  tke  Pit  and  rolled  their  dreadful 
waves  over  this  once  lovely  world.  Where  once  in  tho 
natural  world  were  fertile  meadows  and  smiling  hills,  are 
now  sandy  deserts  and  barren  rooks.  Where  once  fruit 
and  flowers,  now  are  thorns  and  briars.  Where  once 
beauty,  now  is  deformity.  So  we  find  it  too  in  the  world 
of  mind.  Often  we  can  scarcely  distinguish  between  the 
original  forma^on  and  the  sad  derangement  The 
noxious  weed  has  so  overgrown  and  buried  from  sight 
the  true  plant  that  we  almost  search  for  it  in  vain. 

A  brief  examination  into  the  originda  of  these  spnriouB 
growths,  will  bring  us  to  the  same  conclusion  as  in  the 
other,  cases,  viz.  that  man  is  so  constituted  as  to  make 
Qbedience  to  the  laws  of  his  nature  his  happiness,  and  w 
yiolatiou  of  them  his  misery. 

Take  Ambition — ^in  the  common  acceptation  of  the  term 
it  is  a  desire  of  pre-eminence,  but  without  due  regard  to 
the  means  of  obtaining  it,  or  the  purpose  for  which  it 
shall  b6  used.  This  is  the  usurper.  Now  the  original  or 
genuine  passion — for  which  we  have  no  name,  unless  we 
oaU  it  a  laudable  ambUion-^the  genuine  passion,  as  placed 
in  the  system  by  the  hand  of  the  great  Architect,  isskde^ 
sire  to  excd,  by  all  proper  means,  and  for  a  good  purpose. 
The  original  desire  may  and  ought  to  be  pursued.  The 
passion  is  right.  It  is  of  divine  origin.  Gk>d  has  set  us 
a  high  mark,  and  is  urging  us  on  to  the  highest  point  of 
excellence  of  which  our  natures  are  capable.  With  a 
light  motive  and  by  all  lawful  means  we  ought  to  strive 
for  the  highest  possible  pre-eminence.  This  is  onx  duty. 
Xt  is  our  happiness. 

But  how  different  the  result  of  the  exeroise  of  the 
oounterfeit  passion.  Where  U  predominates  every  bitter 
root  and  poisonous  plant  grows  and  luxuriates,  every  evil 
birds  prowls  about  and  preys  on  all  that  is  lovely  and 
deaixabla    What  hatred  and  animosities,  what  heart- 


A  UUDABLB  AMBITION.  ^y 

burnings,  what  contentions  if  ««* 
>  «H»eties  from  flS^  ^^^  "P^V""'"'""- -P-** 

-how  many  tears  flow  T,„     """-"""d^w-bloodehed 

how  many  wretched  ^ZZ^  ""^T  *"''  <"?!'»''»- 
the  dire  calamiariS^STbrth""?"  *"  "^"^  ""d" 

ofonrnatni*.  "^^  ™'»"°'' <>' one  of  the  Uw« 

onr^eonf«;tn*1n"'r "S"  °'  *■»«-«  »  '»"  of 
strong  arm  of  QodisZZ^TV  t**'  "'"»»  tt* 
from  a  thousand  hZm^^f  *" ''??  ''"k  «>e  smner 
would  instantly  bttmeTs^rr^i  "oompleteheU 
restraining mflnenlr,?!^         ^  "^  "'^^^^  this 

»he  bitteriSTdtl    TddTt?"''''?  '»  ""^"^ 
•nd  you  have  the  Bre  thM  U  *"*  "*"  *«*». 

worm  that  never  die^  "*^'"  ^™'"'*'^'  "^  the 

J^^  »St:f  r r^Thlr  '^"'^  ^^"^ 
«™  unruly  desirea-Z^  '^  "*  """dred.    They 

our  moral  oonstitntioi.    .nj     .  •  •         ""n 'he  laws  of 
ri«5htful  possessor  of  the  »a         ™^'°  ^PP'^'t  every 

An  nwrdinate  dmre  is  one  whinl,  ™.ij 
scribed   rules   of  iutegX     n   h^     -.T' *"  *' ?"" 
object  nor  does  it  pur^  thatnhW  T'"""  »  """t^y 
It  cannot,  therefore  bTr^  nri  •  ^^    '  ""^  ''»'"'?  "'««n8- 
stitnlion,  for  thfa    ibrm^  ^  P"*  °'  °"  ""oral  con- 

eaonot  be  oth*;iira:'g::dl't5^  'Z™!  "'»''• 
operations.  '^      "  ''"*''  ""^  good  in  its 

Would  we  know  whaf  *i»a • 

these  are  the  count!!^:  t  ^e^mL^^^^^  ^'Z^^^' 
own  breasts,  and  we  shaU   n^an^dTrn  "^^  ^^ 

mental  fumitnr«  ^/^.^       J         ^  *"^°^®'' »mong  our 
nmuture,  ,<rongr  a«<^  unconquerable  desires  far  Z 


448 


THE   F00T-PBINT8  OF  SATAN. 


qinsUim  and  possession.  These  are  the  original,  or  genu- 
ine passions — the  constitutional  desires  of  the  soul,  right 
in  themsolres  and  produotive  only  of  good,  and  conse- 
quently of  happiness. 

For  proof  of  this  we  must  trace  the  operations  both  of 
the  usurper  and  the  original  passion. 

It  is  a  matter  of  experience  that  the  usurper,  the  inor- 
dinate desire,  is  so  strong,  so  unruly,  that  it  is  constantly 
attempting  to  overstep  the  rules  of  moderation,  or  to 
-violate  the  laws  of  integrity,  and  so  craving  that  it  uM  not 
— cannot  be  satisfied  with  any  amount  it  may  acquire 
here.  There  is  a  disparity  in  the  nature  of  the  object, 
and  of  the  desire  which  precludes  satisfaction.  But  the 
desire  is  rankling,  swelling,  burning — and  the  more  im- 
petuously as  it  has  been  partially  gratified.  And,  unless 
some  strong  arm  of  restraint  arrest  its  progress,  gratified 
it  will  be  by  whatever  means,  lawful  or  otherwise. ,  Nor 
will  it  stop  within  the  precincts  of  honesty.  Avarice  will 
here  cast  his  wanton  eye  into  a  neighbor's  house,  or  raise 
his  lawless  hand  over  a  neighbor's  field — and  then  what 
envyings  and  jealousies,  what  crimination  and  conflicts, 
what  a  world  of  evil  feeling  and  outrageous  action. 

Suppose  all  restraint  removed — the  restraint  of  civil 
law,  of  public  opinion,  of  conscience,  and  suppose  this 
state  of  things  to  be  extended  from  man  to  man,  from 
community  to  community  and  nation  to  nation,  and  what 
a  world  this  would  be !  How  would  unmixed,  unabated 
misery  everywhere  stare  us  in  the  face !  And  all  this  but 
the  legitimate  result  of  violating  one  of  nature's  laws. 

But  the  time  is  at  hand  when  all  arresting  restraints 
shall  be  removed — when  probation  shall  cease,  and  then 
every  violation  of  constitutional  laws  shall  invariably  be 
followed  by  its  legitimate  and  awful  consequence.  What 
eternal  misery  must  then  ensue ! 

On  the  other  hand  let  us  trace  the  operation  of  the 


raOBDINATI  OKSIBIS. 


149 


g^e  pM,™,.  the  Uudabb  dedre  of  wqufaMon  md 
PO«e«ion,  wMoh,  by  a  h«d  divine.  i»  piStedL  er^ 

jeot,  .nd  pre^es  on  to  its  aooompShment  by  Zhdn  rf 
adequate  and  worthy  meane.    AWe  all,  it  fi^  :7th1 

tlL  1  ^''sfaototy  supply  of  every  applioant  M 
there  can  be  no  ground  of  jealousy,  lesi  otters^  ^ 
too  much  so  there  can  be  no  temptation  totresMTrfta 
nghts  of  others.  Each  may  pu^ae  his  obSCLtenUv 
and  adopt  means  as  vigorously  as  he  oleZ  wffK  w?^ 
least  interference  with^the  r^h"  tf  o^t^l'^r^' 
vigorously  e^A^pursues  his  onward  course  anitou^ 

vanoed.    Jb  the  mmd -becomes  more  absorbed  i,.  »!■« 
P«»u.t  ofthe  imperishable  riches,it  has^J^tim"  n« 

S:tTSs^°:.n:«Li^^  '^"-^  ""-  «">  '^^ 

It  ^*r°"  °'  T*" '  '"*'  "*  *'°88  cMmot  be  mistaken 
It  would  remove  the  occasion  of  one  half  of  the  woX- 
mamty  is  he«  to.    And,  besides,  a  different  diecti^ 

w<™ldbegiven  to  the  energies  of  mind,preser^Ste 
before  .t  so  much  more  absorbing  and^satisfact^C 
tte  ten  thousand  wicked  devices  of  lawless  pa^do™ 
which  now  keep  the  world  in  strife,  would  be  am^laM 
iJl  eyes  wo»ld  then  be  directed  towards,  and  aU  h^ 
be  feed  upon  d«tant,  infinite  and  etermU  objecte.^ 
tt»  happy  consequence  would  be  peace,  good  will  among 
men.  and.  ultimately,  "glory  t„  God  ii.  the  highest 


4S0 


THE  VOOT-PBIMTB  OF   SATAN. 


Saoh  would  be  the  legitimate  and  precious  fruits  of  yield- 
ing obedience  to  the  laws  of  our  nature.  Bemove  all 
counteracting  causes,  such  as  arise  from  the  general 
depravity  of  our  race,  and  from  the  fascinations  of  the 
world,  and  add  eternal  duration  to  such  a  state  of  things, 
and  we  have  heaven  on  earth  begun. 

Another  illustration  of  a  kindred  character  may  be 
derived  from  fride  and  vanity.  These  are  again  usurpers 
— perversion  of  constitutional  faculties  which  in  them- 
selves are  really  good.  Pride  is  an  inordinate  self-esteem, 
manifesting  itself  in  a  low  estimate  or  contempt  of  others. 
Vanity  is  an  inordinate  self  esteem,  showing  itself  in  a 
high  and  unvxirrantaJHe  estimate  of  one's  self.  They  are 
kindred  spirits,  and  equally  the  perversions  of  their  ori- 
ginals, which  are  self  respect  and  a  desire  to  he  esteemed  by 
others. 

Self  esteem  or  pride  is  a  desire  of  self  aggrandizement, 
irrespective  of  the  means  by  which  it  is  obtained,  and 
generally  irrespective  of  the  possession  or  the  desire  to 
possess  merit.  It  is  the  inflation  of  vanity — ^the  wish  to 
appear  to  be  something,  whether  one  be  anything  or  not. 

The  practical  tendency  of  this  is  altogether  towards 
evil.  On  the  one  hand,  it  fosters  insolence  and  contempt, 
and  on  the  other,  hatred,  envy,  jealousy,  or  a  base  and  a 
cringing  spirit,  or  bitterness  and  disgust.  It  looses  the 
tongue  of  slander  and  makes  men  bite  and  devour  one 
another.  It  poisons  the  fountains  of  benevolence  and 
dries  up  the  streams  of  mutual  love.  It  severs  society  into 
the  most  unnatural  divisions,  in  which  the  most  worthless 
may  trample  on  the  most  meritorious.  Such  distortions 
must  produce  a  bitter  fruit.  Ulofounded  and  insolent 
claims  on  the  one  side,  and  an  indignant  resistance  on 
jihe  other,  are  the  very  elements  of  human  strife. 

It  was  pride  that  first  raised  rebellion  in  heaven,  and 
43ast  the  rebel  angels  down  to  hell. 


t^iwsc^r 


lUN  AS  HE  WAS  MADE. 


461 


Could  pride  stalk  abroad,  unchecked  by  certain  in- 
fluences  which  now  set  bo^inds  to  ite  usurpatbT  what 
ZTe^h  "f  ^TT"-«--lence  shouWr^elon 
r^«„?  .  r^  r""^/^**  outbreakings  of  violence  and 
rancor  and  mahgmty  on  the  other.  We  should  soon 
have  a  pandemonium  on  earth-and.  duration  added,  a 
pandemomum  for  eternity.  ' 

^""^  !®.*  ^.J"^  '°'  »  '"^"^ent  to  the  genuine  plant 
upon  which  this  germ  of  evil  growth  has  been  grafJed 
and  over  which  it  has  so  spread  its  luxuriant  bSes 
^a^t  je  can  scarcely  discover  a  relic  of  ttie  original 

Man,  under  the  lawful  influence  and  the   salutair 
guidance  of^  respect,  would  regard  himself  as  Z 
creainre  </  God,  possessed  of  a  body  and  a  soul-rbody 
of  wondroiw  conformation,  and  a  soul  of  yet  more  ex- 
qmsite  workmanship.    Ho  scarcely  need  open  his  Bible 
to  learn  that  he  was  created  but  little  lower  than  the  ^! 
gels.    He  has  a  feehng  within,  as  weU  as  overwhelming  ev- 
dence  from  without^  which  assures  him  that  he  was  made 
for  immortahty.    He  opens  the  book  of  revelation  and 
re^s  yet  more  clearly  the  high  destinies  of  his  immortal 
spirit.    Yea  more^  he  there  reads  a  lesson  of  immortahty 
for  his  once  suffenng  and  dying  body:  this  carruptiUe 
ahaU  put  mwwrrnption,  and  this  mortal  shaU  put  on  in- 
m^rMy     He  views  himself  as  a  child  of  immortality. 

now  f  r""^  ?!  u^'^'  °"einal,  endowed  with  such 
noble  faculties-the  being  of  so  exalted  a  destiny-man 
cannot,  when  he  rightly  estimates  himself,  but  entertain 
a  M  sdf  respect.  And  in  proportion  as  he  respects  Mm- 
«c^~as  he  esteems  himself  to  be  the  offspring  of  Gk)d- 
formed  in  the  image  of  his  divine  original,  bound  to  a 
speedy  return  to  Him  who  made  him,  and  capable  of 
bemg  associated  forever  with  angels  and  partaking  with  . 
tiiem  in  the  Ubors  and  feKcities  of  heaven,  in  the  same 


452 


THE    FOOT-PRINTS  OF  SATAN. 


proportion  will  be  his  eflforts  so  to  live  as  to  answer  the 
great  ends  of  his  being.    The  son  of  a  king  will  not  de- 
mean himself  by  doing  a  base  action  because  he  ia  the 
son  of  a  king.    He  must  sustain  a  character  worthy  of 
royal  descent.    He  must  reaped  himaelf  as  the  heir  appa- 
rent to  the  throne.    But  how  much  more  will  the  man 
who  bears  in  mind  his  more  than  royal  descent,  and  his 
more  exalted  destiny  than  that  of  mounting  an  earthly 
throne  or  wearing  a  fading  diadem,  so  shape  his  earthly 
career  as  to  walk  worthy  his  high  original.    He  will  pur- 
sue a  course  that  shall  honor  himse^  as  a  creature  of  (5od, 
and  honor  God  his  creator.    If  the  son  of  a  king  would  be 
deemed  unworthy  of  his  high  birth  if  engaged  in  a  mean 
action  or  unworthy  of  his  station  if  detected  in  a  re- 
bellious action,  how  much  more  is  man,  the  o£fspring  of 
the  King  of  kings,  the  expectant  of  an  eternal  kingdom, 
degraded  when  he  stoops  to  commit  a  mean  or  a  re- 
bellious act.    But  sin  is  both  a  mean  and  a  rebellious 
act,  degrading  to  man,  dishonoring  to  God.    It  is  wholly 
inconsistent  with  adf  respect  or  seJf  hue.    The  sinner  does 
not  respect  himsdf. 

Were  all  men  to  place  a  just  estimate  on  themselves, 
and  so  to  employ  the  powers  of  their  bodies  and  the  fa- 
culties of  their  souls,  as  to  sustain  their  noble  birthright 
and  to  fulfill  their  high  destinies,  how  it  would  at  once 
change  the  aspect  of  our  wretched  world.  It  would 
make  it  a  happy  world.  Man,  a  child  of  God,  would 
strive  with  the  utmost  stretch  of  his  faculties  to  carry 
himself  worthy  so  honorable  an  origin. 

Again,  sdf  love  is  made  our  standard  by  which  to  gradu- 
ate our  love  to  others.  Man  must,  on  the  principle  of  self 
resi)ect,  (or  self  love,)  regard  himself  as  the  creature,  the 
child,  the  subject  of  God,  and  the  recipient  of  every  good 
thing  and  the  expectant  of  a  crown  and  a  kingdom,  and 
must  recognize  the  duties  that  result  from  such  high  and 


UAH  CANNOT  BE8T0RB  HIMSELF.        453 

hoj^  relations  and  exercise  aU  those  feelings,  afifections 
and  hopes  which  the  consciousness  of  so  noWe  a  birth.S 
Buch  honorable  relations  and  such  exalted  expecUtos 
are  suited  to  msp  re.  And  then,  this  is  the  st!^^^j 
which  he  w  to  eshmate  his  feUow  man-by  which  he  is 
to  regulate  his  conduct  towards  him.  We  are  to  regard 
hun  aaaUogdher  such  a  one  as  oursdves^aB  a  being  of 
kmdred  nature,  of  kindred  wante.  hopes  and  desth^^* 

^e  most  exalted  happmess?  It  only  waits  for  the  close 
Z  ^V'^°^*i°°«'7  or  mixed  state  of  existen  ,  and  to 
be^clottied  witti  eternity,  and  it  would  be  infinite  ha^ 

Were  we  to  analyze  other  kindred  passions  we  should 
discern  in  their  perversions,  the  handiwork  of  the  same 
maucious  Foe. 

We  had  desired  to  educe  an  argument  in  support  of 
our  proposition  from  the  infinite  desires,  and  the  M  ca^ 
^^  of  the  soul-but  must  say  in  a  word,  if  man 
would  hve  as  he  IS  mode  to  Uve,  if  he  would  use  his  body 
as  It  was  made  to  be  used,  and  use  his  soul  as  it  was 

h^rJ^^  r^-",^«  ^°^d  ^'^  Aim*^  according  to 
his  real  digmty-if  he  would  obey  the  laws  of  his  own 

etemSl  ''°*  ^  ^  ^^  ^*PP^  ^^'^  "^^  ^Wy 

And  here  I  would  distindy  recognize  the  necessity  <f  the 
Hdy  Spini-^e  necessity  of  the  powerful  arm  of  God  to 
arrest  the  sinner  in  his  course  of  his  wicked  violations, 
and  to  bring  him  back  to  obedience  to  the  law  of  his 
nature  and  his  God.  Man  cannot  recover  himsd/.  He  is 
rank  too  low-his  heart  is  fuUy  set  in  him  to  do  evil. 
He  will  not  come  that  he  may  have  life.  Hence  the  in- 
dispensable  necessity  of  divine  influences. 

Is  not  the  Devn  then  at  work  in  man  by  agencies  the 
most  effective,  by  wiles  the  most  maUoious?    Is  he  not 


m^ 


454 


THE  yOOT-PPINTS  OF  SATAN. 


here  achieving  his  most  direful  triumphs?  It  is  sad 
enough  that  he  has  laid  the  physical  world  in  ruins,  per- 
verting everything  and  changing  Eden  into  a  desert.  It 
is  sadder  that  he  should  achieve  the  mental  and  moral 
ruin  of  man. 

In  closing  this  chapter  we  deduce  from  the  general 
thought  illustrated  certain  great  moral  lessons  : 

I.  What  an  infinite  evil  is  sin  I  How  it  degrades  man 
in  its  commission.  How  dishonoring  to  God— how  bitter 
its  fruits !  It  violatas  all  law,  mars  all  dignity,  defaces 
all  beauty,  destroys  all  good,  and  is  the  procuring  cause 
of  all  evil. 

n.  How  reasonable  a  thing  is  religion  1  It  is  obe- 
dience to  the  laws  of  our  natura  It  is  the  recognition  of 
God  in  his  own  proper  character,  and  the  using  of  our 
bodies  and  our  souls  according  to  their  original  intent. 
It  is  the  recognition  of  those  great  natural  relations 
which  exist  between  us  and  our  heavenly  Father,  and  be- 
tween us  and  our  fellow  men,  and  the  discharge  of  con- 
sequent duties.  It  is  the  emancipation  of  our  physical, 
mental  and  moral  faculties  from  the  bondage  into  which 
they  have  been  brought  by  sin,  and  their  restoration  to  the 
noble  purposes  for  which  they  were  designed.  It  is  a 
rescue  of  the  soul  from  the  chains  and  manacles  of  an 
outlawry  band  of  passions,  and  its  restoration  to  the 
bosom  of  faith,  hope  and  charity.  What  more  desirable, 
what  more  reasonable  ? 

III.  The  certainty  of  the  future  punishment  of  the 
wicked.  Misery  is  the  natural  consequence  of  sin.  And 
but  for  the  gracious  interposition  of  divine  mercy  in 
securing  a  probation,  it  would  meet  its  speedy  recom- 
pense. Bin  in  none  of  its  changes  can  produce  holiness. 
Let  things  take  their  course— leave  the  sinner  as,  by  sin 
Wirepentec'  of,  he  leaves  himself,  to  pursue  a  course  of 


'N  ' 


THE  8INNEB  A  SBLP-DESTROYEB. 


465 


disobedience  to  his  constitution  and  to  his  God,  and  he 
m^4M  perish.    He  must  eat  the  legitimate  fruit  of  his  own 
doings.    He  has  forfeited  the  favor  of  his  God  which 
alone  is  life.    He  must  suflFer  the  eternal  absence  of  God 
—of  all  mercy  and  goodness,  which  is  the  second  death. 
IV.  God  cannot  be  charged  with  injustice  or  cruelty 
when  he  punishes.  The  shmer  is  &sdf -destroyer.  He  reaps 
just  what  he  sowed.    He  feeds  his  own  flames.    He  nur- 
tures in  his  own  bosom  the  never-dying  worm.    He  daily 
carries  about  with  him  the  elements  of  his  own  destruc- 
tion.   Every  sin  contains  in  itself  the  seed  of  death  and 
endless  misery.    And  why  this  seed  does  not  at  once 
germmate  and  mature  into  the  poisonous  fruits  of  the 
second  death,  is  because  it  is  restrained  by  the  kind 
Hand  till  the  day  of  probation  be  passed.    Every  trans- 
gression contains  in  itself  an  element  of  unquenchable 
fire,  and  why  it  does  not  &i  once  burst  forth  and  bum 
with  aU  the  fury  of  the  Pit  is  because  it  is  smothered 
by  the  hand  of  Grace  divme  till  the  day  of  recompense 
come.    The  moment  God  siiall  withdraw  that  hand,  the 
transgressor  is  lost  forever.    And  then— ah,  that  keenest 
pang  that  he  has  knowingly,  willfully   and   eternally 
destroyed  Ums^,    He  has  been  aUowed  seed-time  and 
harvest,  summer  and  winter,  sunshine  and  rain,  and  will 
he  call  God  a  hard  master  because  he  leaves  him  to  reap 
the  fruit  of  his  own  doings  ? 

Come,  then,  self-descroying  sinner,  stop,  look  before 
you— reflect— and  turn  away  from  the  blackness  and 
darkness  that  await  you.  Be  sure  you*  sin  will  find  you 
out.  You  cannot  escape  the  all-searching  eye  of  Gkxi 
Meo  while  the  door  of  hope  is  open.  For  when  once  the 
Master  is  risen  up  and  shut  to  the  door,  and  you  standing 
without  shaU  knock  saying,  "  Open  to  us,"  he  shall  say, 
"  I  know  you  not  whence  ye  are  ?"    But  now  the  "  Spirit 


456 


THB   FOOT-PBINTS  OF  SATAN. 


and  the  Bride  say,  dome.  And  let  him  that  heareth  say, 
Gome.  And  whosoever  to^,  let  him  take  of  the  water  of 
life  freely." 


xxn. 

SATAN  IN  THE  MABRUGB  EEaATION. 


I^SUfOim   OP  KABHMlIJ-DrTOBOE  AM,   DTOBOB  UTO 

Z  ZJ'Z-ZT'  '^'^^-^^  moBOET™: 

TO  THEK  ALL— "amia  OF  THE  PEBIOD"  AHD  FART 
TODNO  „EN-DEm  HOWHEBE  EZ«»  STEDIES^  «^ 
DEADLX  BLOW.  ^^ 

We  shodd  quite  fail  to  give  the  Deril  his  due  and 
d.ould  overlook  .very  essential  field  of  his  dlgs^"« 

at  least  to  the  subject  of  ditoboe,  and  its  bearings  on  the 
^tLT^    °°rf  consequently  its  vital  ZZ^t 

thS'™  ?1^"^^  *"  """*  ^^■"  «^P°»^  ae  devioesof 

tU  tte  slT  T^P''=''<'"««i'>»-J.owhehas  sX 

"7...,.  ^  ****  ^^-  *'"1  '«"  te  gilded  oorose   and 

BMd  "ftesebe  thygods,  O  Israel."    Aid  thThls  he 

rZd  to^f^  "°  f"^    ^°  'J«^'«  •"«  been 

8p«ed  to  wrest  from  every  form  of  the  true  religion  its 

divme  vitality,  to  neutralize  its  power  over  the  K  ita 

uUluenoe  to  purify  andmake  gie,  and  hk:  Zi^ 


m 


iL-J    1 


468 


WHAT  IS  HCABBUGE? 


and  the  heat  to  warm  and  enlighten  aU  within  its  influ- 
ence, jr 

But  in  the  latter  days  the  vile  corrupter  has,  if  possible 
made  a  yet  more  stealthy  onset  He  has  cast  the  poison 
mto  the  very  springs  of  all  moral,  social  and  domestic  in- 
fluences-polluting the  fountain  and  thus  vitiating  all  the 
streams.  Morality,  religion,  aU  human  progress  and 
prosperity  feel  the  wound.  It  is  an  assavit  m  the  aanctUy 
ofmarrw^.  And  the  sources  of  this  increasing  evil  we 
cannot  fail  to  discover,  especially  in  modem  Socialism. 
Foumensm,  Free-love,  Mormonism,  and  in  a  general  and 
yet  important  sense,  in  Communism  and  the  Interna- 
tional. 

But  a  preliminary  inquiry  here,  and  one  of  vital  import, 
relates  to  marriage-its  intrinsic  importance,  its  relative 
position  and  value,  and  the  place  it  holds  as  a  conser- 
vative and  influential  element  in  the  great  machinerv  of 
human  afiairs.  ^ 

But  what  is  marriage  ?    What  is  there  in  this  relation 

that  makes  it  the  controlling  element  here  claimed?    It 

IS  the  umon-the  unifying  of  one  man  and  one  woman, 

in  aU    the   relations,   interests,  toils,  hopes,  joys  and 

soiTows  of  life-and  for  hfe.    They  are  no  more  twain 

but  one  flesh,  joined  by  God,  and  may  not  be  sundered  by 

man.    Each  party  has  its  own  peculiar  capabilities,  pro- 

chvities,  susceptibiUties  and  virtues,  and  each,  we  may 

assume,  equally  needful  to  the  general  weU-being  of  the 

whole.    But  the  efficiency  of  either  is  secured  only  by 

the  co-operation  or  coalescence  of  the  two.    It  is  "not 

good,"  for  human  progress  or  happiness  that  man  (or 

woman)  should  be  alone.    Hence  the  divine  ordinance  of 

marriage,  the  union   and  harmony  of  forces  radically 

unhke,  yet  essential  to  the  greatest  good  of  the  whole 

and  doubly  powerful  when  united.    We  may  name  the 


™"   TCOT-PBINTS  OP  aiTuj.  459 

ate,  cannot  "S;  a  holrV  *°°1:  ^^-  ''<^'^'^- 
lovely  and  untiring  tw  I°T'  ''°"*''"  ''"^'"«' 
home,  entire  and  wi,ang  no^f  °™'  """"ot  make  a 
and  blending  together  of  tw  *  5  "*  "  *'«'  ""io" 
fun  import  of  a^lZ  hL^e  ^t  7°"'''  '«  '"<"'  «■« 
contrast  the  homelea.  .w  T  ■"""*•  ''«  "««*  onlr 
heathen  famUv  S  ^11^^      "^  f  PPmg-ph«e  of  » 

Christian  hom^  In  aeC'^'"^  "> '^'^  *«  ^ 
ligence,  education     **-^' ^^"r' "«>  "«&«,  intel- 

operation,  and  leasi  o^aU^a. ^^e  r^:  "^"""'^  "  '°^ 
powerful  influence  of  thl  .u  ^^  Pe«BasiT6,  aU- 
Christian  faXwe  meet  JL"""-  ?^"«  "  «'''  '"•« 
and  wife,  parent  anTcMd'Sr^r  ""•""""«' 
pe^onaUy  interested  to ^'istet  th?l  ""•'"'  ""^'' 
culture,  the  resDectaWHtr^  j       .  ■      happmess,  the 

and  to  render  hT^u^a^^r  "''^"^^  °'  «>«  o't". 
well-being  of  the  Xl  l^^l. '""' '^«*"'°  «"> 
training  Ine  flt  tie  tembtf  oTtw ^U  T"^?  ""* 
to  become  useful  m„mK  .  *  "  ordered  famUy 
good  to  tl^e  ^M  C^  "'  '°°'«'y. '»'»  '""oners  5 
foundation  oTil  thL  ^1.^"^"  ""^ly  ^o  only 
concubinase  andi^  rf^^S^^P""*™'  "*l»«ons.    In 

of  proflig^,te;:  ^n  uhXr^d'r  ^«  '•**""? 

nor  child,  brothernorsister  ThT  ■  °?,^  '^*'  P""" 
-lo™  menta.cult^:^e<^^rr"~-^''-'» 
naSfS  r:  tTtS'  t""""'""'  "'°"^'y-  «»  but  the 
never  C^rZ^f^X^^^^^  b""*^  '"""^  "-* 
those  who  by  affection  or  sS     .  '  P"*""^  " 

themselves  in  t^e TmSy  rlti»  t  «0"«mguinily  pUoe 

to  «lucate  ohadrentVttrnfrr:;'^ 


400 


MABBIAQE  ILLKES  HOME. 


should  igo.  And  here  enters  especially  the  maternal 
element  of  a  Christian  education.  This  is  altogether  un- 
known in  a  heathen  family.  Properly  to  appreciate  the 
value  of  this  kind  of  education  we  must  go  back  to  the 
period  of  the  first  teachings  and  guidance  of  the  infant 
mind  by  the  mother.  And  here,  as  Bishop  Bayley  very 
justly  says : 

"The  peculiar  character  and  conduct  of  every  one 
depend  chiefly  upon  the  influences  which  surround  them 
in  early  life.    *As  the  twig  is  bent  the  tree's  inclined.' 
The  education  of  a  child,  in  the  full  and  proper  sense  of 
the  wprd,  may  be  said  to  commence  from  the  moment  it 
opens  its  eyes  and  ears  to  the  sights  and  sounds  of  the 
world  about  it,  and  of  these  sights  and  sounds  the  words 
and  example  of  parents  are  the  most  impressive  and  the 
most  enduring.    Of   all  lessons  those  learned    at    the 
knees  of  a  good  mother  sink  the  deepest  into  the  mind 
and  heart,  and  last  the  longest.    Many  of  the  noblest  and 
best  men  thjit  ever  lived  and  adorned  and  benefited  the 
world,  have  declared  that,  under  God,  they  owed  every-* 
thing  that  was  good  and  useful  in  their  lives  to  the  love 
of  virtue  and  truthfubess  and  piety  and  the  fear  of  God 
instilled  into  their  hearts  by  the  lips  of  a  pious  mother." 
The  mother  is  the  "  angel  spirit  of  the  home."  •  Her 
love  never  cools.    She  never  tires.    Hers  is  the  mission 
of  love.    Nothing  can  atone  for  the  loss  of  a  mother— 
unless  it  be  a  mother  in  a  mother's  place.    But  there  are 
no  mothers— no  children  in  the  endearing  sense  of  the 
term— no  sweet  and  hallowed,  all-pervading,  all-influen- 
tial love,  save  within  the  sacred  enclosures  of  wedlock. 

Nor  is  the  State  less  dependent  on  the  family  for  good 
citizens.  The  family  is  peouUarly  the  nursery  of  the 
State— the  source  of  all  good  government,  of  order,  peace 
and  safety.  And  more  especially  yet,  is  the  family  the 
foundation  and  source  of  all  true  religious  culture.    Our 


THB  FOOT-PBDITS  0?  SATAN. 


<161 


blessed  Beligion,  pure  and  undeflled,  deiirns  not  to  t~.j 
on  .  «,a  poUuted  by  tte  footsteps  „f  ^omlt  ^ 
m^t  first  purify  the  Augeau  stable  before  K  entr 
and  dwell  there.    Never  may  we  look  for  rehgiorculw 

Or  we  might  with  equal  truth  affirm  that  but  for  m«r- 
nage  and  ite  faithful  constituent,  the  famUy,  the  instita- 
bons  referred  to  would  hare  no  eristenoe.  and  that  ?or  the 
good  reason  that  very  soon  there  would  be  a  fataU^k 
of  people  t^  constitute  either  society.  Church  or  nation 
Population  depends  almost  entirely  on  marriage  and  tC 
famdy  state.  The  great  majority  of  the  offspri^  of 
oonoubmage  and  profligacy  die  before  or  soL  X 

d^„'  ,  *,,^f  •^"™'"»g»  of  the  miserable  remnant 
ie  m  early  ohddhood.  And  U  the  few  that  survive  the 
v^  uupropitious  circumstances  of  their  birth,  it  may 
My  be  said,  it  had  been  better  for  them  and  tke  world 
u  they  had  never  been  born. 

We  speak  of  probabilities  and  facts  as  they  generally 
exist    Excepfaonal  cases  there  are,  where,  by  some  ab- 
normal process  or  exceptional  providence,  a  corrupt  tree 
is  allowed  to  brmg  forth  good  fruit.    Every  blow,  then, 
struck  at  the  marriage  relation-eveiy  sentiment  uttered 
every  influence  used  or  act  committed  that  impairs  its 
sanctity,  is  a  deadly  blow  struck  at  the  race-essentially 
at  Its  existence-if  not  for  its  annihilation,  yet  for  its 
profoundest  demoralization. 

If  marriage  and  the  family  occupy  the  place  in  the 
economy  of  human  affairs  which  we  have  assigned  them 
we  can  scarcely  deprecate  in  too  severe  terms  any  inva- 
sion of  their  sacred  precincts.  And  we  need  not  be  sur- 
prised that  our  enemy  has  here  made  some  of  his  most 
insidious  attacks,  and  never  more  determinedly  than  at 
tne  present  moment. 


462 


MIBBUQE  AND  POPULATION. 


li 


Modem  lax  notions  of  marriage  and  easy  divorce  are 
alarming  features  of  our  times.  There  is  no  surer  sign 
of  the  decadence  of  public  morals  and  religion  than  this 
disregard  of  the  sanctity  of  marriage.  Facility  of  divorce 
is  one  of  the  most  fruitful  sources  of  evil  which  can  afflict 
a  community.  And  it  is  precisely  here  that  we  meet 
some  of  the  most  subtle  and  determined  attacks  of  our 
ever-watchful  Foe. 

But  on  whom  shall  we  chaise  these  false  and  damag- 
ing notions  of  marriage  ?  Who  have  assailed  the  peace, 
the  purity  and  the  permanency  of  this  invaluable 
domestic  relation  ? 

We  hesitate  not  to  charge  a  large  share  of  the  mis- 
chief on  certain  modern  organizations,  such  as  Socialism, 
Fourrierism,  Free  Love,  Mormonism,  Communism,  the 
Internationals,  and  (in  a  sense  we  shall  explain)  Wo- 
man's Rights.  These  modern  organizations  are  little 
else  then  the  natural  outgrowths  of  the  sly,  insidious  in- 
fidelity whose  poisonous  leaven  has  infected  some  of  the 
mosi  sacred  relations  of  life.  What  infidelity  has  done 
directly  for  religion,  it  has  done  indirectly  in  the  family 
and  society  through  the  organizations  named.  These  in 
their  practical  workings  are  but  too  surely  damaging  to 
the  moral  idea  of  marriage. 

Socialism,  whose  name,  as  representing  the  leading 
features  of  all  the  isms  referred  to,  is  legion,  has  been  de- 
fined, "  a  project  to  pulveiize  society  iuto  its  individual 
elements,  then  let  them  come  together  again  according  to 
individual  caprice,  at  least  without  the  moulding  of  the 
present  laws  of  marriage,  property  and  religion."  Ou 
the  question  of  marriage  the  socialistic  alliance  at  Gene- 
va, in  1869,  gave  this  decree.  We  demand  "  the  aboli- 
tion of  marriag3,  so  far  as  it  is  a  political,  reUgious,  judi- 
cial, or  civil  institution." 
And  in  the  same  category  we  may  class  Fourrierism 


COMMUNISM  AND  MABRIAGB. 


409 


and  the  Oneida  Community.  The  creed  of  the  latter  is 
sufficiently  free  and  easy  :  «  Every  man  becomes  the  hus- 
band and  the  brother  of  every  woman,  and  every  woman, 
the  wife  and  sister  of  every  man." 

Mormonism  is  here  outdone.    Brigham  Young  may 
yet  learn  of  Brother  Noyes.    In  Utah  you  may  encounter 
uncomfortable  restrictions  in  the  arrangements  of  your 
httle  domesticities.    You  may  have  so  many  wives  and 
no  more— only  as  many  as  you  lawfully  marry,  or  on  oath 
promise  to  take  for  better  or  for  worse.  In  Oneida  there  is 
perfect  Hberty— love  free  and  unrestrained.    Every  man 
may  find  a  wife  and  sister  in  every  woman.    Nor  has  the 
man  any  pre-eminence  here.    The  woman  is  equally  free 
and  privileged  in  the  exercise  of  all  her  peculiar  affinities 
Communism  and  the  Internationals  we  may  class  in 
much  the  same  category.     The  first  is  strictly  a  political 
movement,  aiming  to  overthrow  existing  forms  of  govern- 
ment, the  other  attempts  to  revolutionize  the  relation  of 
capital  and  labor.    Yet  they  are  agreed  to  join  heart  and 
hand  with  their  sister  SociaUsm  in  her  attempts  to  sub- 
vert the  present  forms  of  social  and  domestic  life.    They 
affihate  in  their  assaults  on  marriage,  reUgion  and  pro- 
perty.   In  France,  the  Internationals  are  the  right  arm 
of  the  Commune. 

^  The  most  notable  feature  of  the  International  to-day 
IS  that  it  stands  ready  to  ally  itseK  with  any  revolution- 
ary element  that  may  help  it  secure  its  ends.  In  1869 
it  received,  to  form  a  constituent  part  of  itself,  the  So- 
cialist Alliance,  which  declared  against  marriage,  rdigim, 
and  mhenianee.  When  France  feU  helpless  from  the 
talons  of  Prussia,  the  order  was  issued  from  London  by 
their  Secretary  for  the  Internationals  to  strike  a  blow  in 
Paris,  and  this  society  became  the  red  right  hand  of  the 
Commune.  Hence,  the  reported  affiliation  of  the  Society 
with  the  Ultramontane  party  in  Germany  against  the 


464 


THE  FOOT-PBUrrS  OF  SATAN. 


Liberals,  that,  helping  to  destroy  all  order,  they  may 
gather  from  the  ruin  the  material  for  their  own  ambitious 
schemes.  We  may  well  watch  the  movements  of  the  So- 
ciety in  this  country. 

And  in  sympathy  again  with  Socialism  and  Free  Love, 
is  modem  Spiritualism.  Its  advocates  "  preach  a  deadly 
antipathy  to  the  Christian  theory  of  the  relation  of  the 
sexes.  Where  else  do  denunciations  of  the  servitude  of 
marriage  find  so  congenial  a  home  as  in  spiritualistic 
libraries?  Where  else  such  loose  theories  of  divorce? 
Where  else  so  much  nonsense  about  "  affinities,"  "  spi- 
ritual unions,"  "  twin  spirits,"  and  the  like  ? 

We  named  Woman's  Rights  as  really,  rather  than 
confessedly,  contributing  to  weaken  the  nuptial  tie,  and, 
to  the  same  extent,  to  invade  the  sacred  precincts  of  the 
family.    With  much  in  "  Woman's  Rights  "  that  would 
right  woman's  wrongs,   we  are  constrained  to  believe 
there  is,  in  the  animus  of  this   movement   and  in  the 
doubtful  utterances  of  leading  members,  much  which 
really  tends,  not  so  much  to  right  woman's  wrongs,  as 
to  wrong  woman  of  her  rights.    K  woman  would  retain 
her  position  at  the  helm  of  domestic  and  social  influences, 
and  guide  the  ship,  she  must  be  a  woman,  and  not  a  man. 
Woman  has  an  enviable  position  and  relative  import- 
ance in  forming  and  fashioning  the  whole  machinery  of 
human  affairs.    On  the  throne  of  the  quiet  home  the 
Christian  wife  and  mother  sits  queen,  cherishing  and 
diffusing  an    influence    which    does  moro    to    nurture 
domestic,  social  and  Christian  virtues  and  fit  her  children 
to  be  good,  Christian  and  useful  citizens,  than  all  other 
influences  combined.     Would  you  dethrone  her — dis- 
place her  from  her  proud  and  enviable  position,  as  a 
true    woman,    at   the   fountain  of  the  sweet,  healing, 
fertilizing,  all-efficient  streams  that  silently  course  their 
way  over  the  bleak  deserts  of  humanity,  and  precipi- 


t  til 


TIOTORU  WOODHULL. 


480 


oataraots  of  the  turbid  stream  of  man's  rougher  deetinv  ? 
The  most    suspicious  featnra    ^*  *i,    "K"w  aestiny !» 

o„".Jl"  ^  ?"°'"^  ^"^  "K""  "'  ">«»  ">«  women  to  take 
on  tte  mamage  relation  of  their  own  free  wiU  aaS  ^Jord 
«.,  too  does  ,t  remain  their  right  to  determme  how  W 
it  shaU  oontmue  and  when  it  shaU  cease  \,T^r  * 
separation  is  desired  because  one  ofthet^o  wJZ  is' 

ewt  two  of  them,  probably  aU  three,  are  unha/pv  But 
f  they  sep„ate-if  the  greatest  good  of  th^LaW 
num  W  .  aUowed  to  rule,  separation  is  legit;ft:td 

"It  fa  asked,  <  what  is  (ie  legitimate  sequence  of  social 

rf^nl  *     "''^^  ^'^ii^J,  free  love,  or  freedom 
of  the  affechons.    'Are  you  then  a  free  loyer?'    lam 
and  can  honestly,  in  the  fuUness  of  my  soul  raise  mr' 
™.ce  to  my  Maker  and  thank  him  that'll  a^'.  'ZdZ 

^  "?1        """^  T  '"'  "''^'  ^  "P'y-  y«»'  I  "m  a  fee 
riX'to  1  r  T''*'""*'  "on^titational  and  natural 

Whence  such  talk?  It  is  not  from  the  Bible,  the 
Ohnstian  Church  or  a  Christian  civilization.  Nowhere 
are  the  teachings  of  Christianity  more  direct,  clZZ 

30 


466  THE  F00T-PBIMT8  OF  SATAN. 

saored  than  when  the  marriage  relation  is  the  theme. 
Next  to  the  Ohuroh,  and  the  most  sure  nursery  of  the 
Ohuroh,  stands  the  family.  Annihilate  the  sanotity  of 
the  family,  as  the  doctrine  of  free  love  effectually  does, 
and  home,  sweet  home,  has  lost  its  charm  and  power, 
and  the  Church  its  nursery  and  stronghold.  Heuce  the 
machinations  of  the  Devil  to  disturb  and  impair  the  in- 
fluence of,  and  if  possible  destroy  our  family  institutions. 
And  in  no  way  does  he  so  successfully  compass  this  ne- 
farious end  as  by  his  invasion  of  the  sanctuary  of 
marriage. 

And  never  was  this  sanctuary  more  ruthlessly  assailed 
than  at  the  present  day.  We  can  scarcely  take  up  a 
paper  whose  columns  do  not  tell  disgusting  tales  of 
Free  Love,  Spiritualism,  Elopements  and  Divorce. 

Let  good  old  staid  Oonnecticut  tell  the  passing  tale.. 
It  is  the  record  of  a  Hingle  year. 

The  State  Librarian,  Charles  J.  Hoadly,  has  presented 
to  the  Legislature  his  annual  report,  giving  interesting 
facts  and  statistics  concerning  births,  marriages  and 
deaths,  during  the  year  1871,  as  follows : 

DIYOROES. 

Li  1871  there  were  409  divorces  granted,  exceeding  the 
number  granted  in  1870  but  by  1.  The  proportion  of  di- 
vorces to  the  number  of  marriages  dur'n  »  the  year  was 
the  same  as  in  1870,  namely  1  to  11.09. 

The  following  table  shows  how  man  t'--,  p-  jcured  in 
each  county,  and  how  many  upon  the  petition  of  the 
husband  and  wife  respectively : 

Divoreea  Husband  WV9 

CouniUs.                 Oranted.  Petitioner.  PetUUmer. 

.."i>  t'tford  .' 77                    29  48 

I'^i^v    Haven 109                    80  79 

i«l=3v  London 41                    10  81 

Fairfield 74                   28  51 


Windham 47  -. 

Litchfield 84  iJ  88 

Middlesex....     *  17  ^J  W  ' 

ToUand '.    10  f  ^ 

— :  f  T 

of  skirmishing  parties  tan  of  t^^^  ''^'^"'^  '*'^*'' 
Divorce  is  the  «iant  tZVL  ""  ^''^"'^'  ^^J 
pine.  ..  t.e  it^L^^^  rrr^^'^^  ''^-- 

interests,  ai.s.  jo,:  ^Tll'Tr  °N 'r'-"'*''' 
may  annul  this  union  exoent  for ?'  •  ?'  '""*'  P"'7 
cause  one  which  i^  iteeU  ritt, '  """^'^  °*""«' ""^  ""at 
tract  of  marriage  and  n"irfi:tlTh  T't  *«  °™- 
,  enees  o£  the  unio'n.'  Tharcat  is  .dlry  "IZ'  ll" " 
the  death-blow  to  aU  that  is  saored Td  ^"entT^l  '' 
nage,  and  so  demoralizes  all  ih^A  """^f'^^nt.al  in  mar- 
make  them  noth^I'^  "^  ^'"""""'  "'»«''■«  ^  to 

IatrdSs':lnr^''l'";f  ■=^?'  'ii^-^.in  th^ 
have  aUud^  t<^  some^'  ,?^  ""  ^""^^  """'P"*!  ?  We 
comprehe^ed  in  ^L  "IT"  *""  «"«'  »'  '"^"'^  i» 

There  are  sabo«iinate  courses  of  the  preyailing  lax 


!'■     } 


m 


THE    P00T-PBINT8  OF  SATAN. 


notions  of  the  marriage  relation  and  of  consequent 
divorce  whioh  doserve"  serious  consideration.  They  aru 
growing  evils,  and  influential  of  untold  mischief.  Some 
of  these  ore  :  The  low  torn  of  public  sentiment  in  re- 
lation to  the  sanctity  of  the  marriage  relation,  the  emulation 
of  the  poorer  classes  to  imitate  the  richer — especially  in 
the  matter  of  female  dress.  The  young  man's  dear  wife 
often  becomes  too  dear.  Domestic  complications  follow, 
and  it  may  be  final  rupture.  Then  the  fictitious  lite- 
rature of  the  day  contributes  largely  to  false  notions  of 
marriage.  High  notions  of  living— temptations  to  live 
above  one's  means,  not  unfrequently  disturb  the  equilib- 
rium of  the  married  state,  and  work  out  a  disastrous 
result.  Inconsiderate  marriages — too  much  freedom  of 
choice — too  much  young  America — has  borne  its  bitter 
fruit.  How  many  divorces  might  have  been  saved  by  a 
timely  heed  to  a  little  judicious  advice.  And  here  we 
would  not  overlook  "  ante  natal  infanticide  "  as  a  modem 
device  of  the  Devil.  The  vile  offices  of  the  abortionist 
hold  out  a  lure  to  the  ruin  of  the  virtue  and  happiness  of 
many  a  victim. 

Indeed,  in  proportion  as  marriage  is  discouraged,  or, 
by  the  state  of  society  or  the  extravagances  of  the  times, 
made  impracticable,  licentiousness  is  encouraged  and 
the  sacredness  of  the  marriage  tie  impaired,  and  conse- 
quently divorce  favored. 

And  here  we  match  from  a  paragraph,  headed  "  Ro- 
manism and  Crime,"  a  choice  bit  by  way  of  comparison 
of  murders  and  illegitimate  births  in  Cathohc  and  Pro- 
testant countries.  We  are  only  concerned  with  the  latter. 
Ilome  scorea  the  highest  proportion  of  illegitimate 
children,  the  ratio  of  births  of  this  class  being  nearly 
sixty-ond  times  greater  in  Rome  than  even  in  London. 
In  London,  for  every  hundred  legitimate  births  there 
are  four  illegitimate ;  in  Leipzig,  twenty,  in  Paiis  forty- 


ILtBaiTDUOT  AHl   DIVOBOB.  469 

eight,  m  Munich  ninety-one,  in  Vienna  one  hundred 
and  eighteen,  and  in  Borne  two  hundred  and  fort  ™ 
And  murder3  in  yet  greater  disproportion:    In  Borne 
TEnZT  ^^^^^'^^'^'i  -^^  fi^ty  of  her  inhabitants, 
tL,!^i    •    T .!'"'.  "'^^   ^"^^^  «"d   seventy-eigh 
Wf?  '  "^,^P"^"d'  °^«  for  one  hundred  and  sixL 
three  thousand  in  Prussia  one  for  one  hundred  thousand.  • 
hax  laws  of  divorce  are  a  fruitful  source  of  the  evil  in 
question.    If  one  party  of  the  aUiance  is  dissatisfied,  or 
has  a  grievance,  or  has  an  affinity  for  another  mate,  Ld 
the  divorce  law  in  his  own  State  is  not  sufficiently  free 
and  easy,  he  may  go  to  Chicago  or  Indiana  a^d  find" 
law  te  accommodate  all  customers.    Some  one  has  called 

80  by  the  hberal  notions  of  Bobert  D.  Owen 
''In  one  county  Court,"  says  the  writer  just  quoted, 
deven  divorces  were  granted  one  morning  before  dinner 

mLT-!^'"'  '  ^r  ^'"^^  '^^'''    ^  «"«  ^*««»  a  pro: 

*Tn    Vt'""''  ''\  *^"^^''  ^^^^  ^*«^«  ^  Indiana-went 
through  the  usual  routine  the  next  morning,  obtamed  his 
^vorce  about  dinner  time-in  the  evening  was  matii 
to  his  new  uiamorata  who  had  accompanied  him  for  the 
purpose  and  was  staying  at  the  same  hotel.    Soon  they 
Bterted  for  home,  having  no  further  use  for  the  State  of 
Indiana.    He  introduced  his  new  wife  to  her  astonished 
predecessor,  whom  he  notified  to  pack  up  and  go,  as 
tiiere  was  no  room  for  her  in  tiie  house.    And  she  went." 
A  divorce  may  there  be  obtained  for  «  any  cause  for  which 
tHe  Cmrt  shall  deem  it  proper  to  grant  it."    A  husband 
may  put  away  a  faithful  wife  in  any  case  in  which  she  be- 
comes personaUy  disagreeable  to  him,  or  in  her  deport- 
ment obnoxious  to  him,  and  he  is  the  sole  judge  wheVher 
sne  find  favor  m  his  eyes. 

But  the  easy  legislation  of  Indiana  is  not  altogether 
unappreciated  by  legislators  cl  other  States.    And  this, 


'1 

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T     I' 


ji'  J  J 


470 


THE  FOOT-PRINTS  OF  SATAN. 


in  turn,  to  give  woman  her  rights  in  the  matter  of  easy 
divorce.  The  State  of  New  York  is  invited,  by  a  sage  le- 
gislator, to  oome  to  her  rescue. 

"  State  Senator  James  Wood  can  take  the  premium  for 
his  plan  of  making  divorce  easy — for  wives.    There  is  no 
wife  in  this  State  who  could  not,  if  she  set  about  it,  ob- 
tain a  separation,  with  alimony,  under  the  amendment 
proposed  by  Mr.  Wood,  *  at  the  instance  (it  is  said)  of 
judges  of  tiie  Supreme  Court.'(?)    This  is  the  amend- 
ment, including  as  a  cause  of  limited  divorce,    such 
conduct  on  the  part  of  the  husband  towards  the  wife  as 
shall,  without  just  cause,  deprive  her  of  the  society  of 
her  rdcUives,  or  friends,  or  of  attendance  upon  public 
worship,  or  shall  designedly  render  her  life  unhappy  or 
unoomfortable.'    'Relatives,'  it  will    bo  remarked,  is  a 
somewhat  comprehensive  word,  applying  not  merely  to 
mothers-in-law,  but  to  the  never-ending  procession  of 
cousins  (in  the  legal  sense,  but  not  physically,)  far-re- 
moved.   A  brute  of  a  husband,  has  therefore  but  to  shut 
out  some  one  of  his  wife's  relatives  who  wants  to  make  a 
free  boarding-house  of  his  residence — and  there  at  once  is 
a  cause  of  divorce.    But  if,  for  a  wonder,  the  wife's 
relatives  did  not  afford  that  practical  opening  for  a  way 
out  of  wedlock,  and  for  the  coveted  alimony,  then  it  is 
only  necessary  for  the  wife  to  prove  that  she  was  rendered 
'uncomfortable.'     Nothing  could  be   easier   than   this. 
The  want  of  a  carriage,  or  a  box  at  the  opera,  or  a  set  of 
diamonds,  or  furs,  might,  in  the  absence  of  more  serious 
gi'ounds  of  discomfort,  cause  a  decidedly  *  uncomfortable ' 
sensation  vdth  some  wives,  and,  backed  by  a  few  tears 
and  an  able  lawyer,  sufficiently  answer  as  a  plea  for 
divorce.    Since  it  is  obvious  that  no  wife  who  wishes  to 
cut  loose  from  her  husband  and  still  have  a  hold  on  his 
purse-strings  could  fail  to  procure  a  divorce  under  such  a 
law,  Mr.  Wood  might  as  well  move  at  once  that  the  con- 


W0K4K  DI  EDEK. 


471 


nj^ri^ation  shaU  be  (on  the  wife',  side)  diasolvable  .t 

If  there  be  one  featnre  in  lai  divorce  laws  more  to  be 
deprecated  than  any  other,  it  is  the  aUowing  of  the 
cnnnnal  atUohn.ent  of  married  persons  TLuL  t 
new  mamages  between  the  guilty  parties,  nndermhung 
family  ™tae  and  holding  out  the  Im;  of  a  diTorce  to^! 
sonswhowould  otherwise  have  Uvea  in  peace  1^°^. 

^lir^^n^'^  "^  r^"  ^"^  P"""""'"^  "<>""».  dear 

•       ?iv^™  °"  "'8^''°  "«''''«•■  Mstoned  to  the  siren 
hHilt '^r^'^r    «<'d""'deherawo^;  r„do^d 
her  w.th  beauty  and  every  grace,  and  aU  the  controlling 
^nes  that  should  make  her  a  queen.    Her  sphere  was  tf 
mt  at  ttie  spnngs  of  aU  human  influences  aid  to  guid^ 
tte  httle  streams  that  go  to  make  up  the  great  l^ 
rf  human  power  and  to  control  the  destSies  of  m^ 
The  apostasy  has  shorn  her  of  m«oh  of  her  primeval 
power.    She  has  sought  out  mSny  inventions ;  the  last  of 
^ch  IS  chnstened  by  the  delusive  title  of  Wom»^ 
Bights     We  now  refer  rather  to  the  off-ehcots  of  an  or- 
ipmmtion  which  is  not  lacking  in  good  aims  for  woman's 
higher  dignity  and  usefulness.    Tet  all  about  it  that 
^enAes  Free  Love  and  the  unseeing  of  woman  is 
worthy  only  of  reprobation  and  disgust. 

We  mean  "girls  of  the  period,"  and  their  counterpart, 
feat  young  men."  The  bearing  of  these  two  classes  on 
^•.n  .V  .""^*8e  is  anything  but  favorable. 
Neither  has  the  first  qualification  for  a  happy,  or  even  a 
a  comfortable  married  life.  Indeed,  he  m^t  be  a  brave 
man,  or  a  fool,  that  would  marry  a  modem  exquisite,  yolept 

■«  girl  of  ae  penod."    And  not  the  less  brave,  or  foolish 
Uieyoungladywhowouldmarryafestyoungman.    With 


472 


THE    F00T-FBINT8  OF  SATAN. 


their  present  habits  of  life  and  notions  of  marriage,  such 
an  alliance  would  be  a  perfect  incongruitj  and  misnomer. 
The  divine  institution  of  marriage,  its  laws,  relations, 
and  obligations,  has  been  assailed  by  every  hostile  bat- 
tery, from  those  of  the  polygamous  Mormons  to  those  of 
the  free-lovers,  whose  chief  anxiety  seems  to  be  to  secure 
the  sanction  of  law  in  favor  of  free  divorce  for  the  mar- 
ried and  of  temporary  marriage  for  the  unmarried.    Be- 
tween these  extremes  of  abominations,  there  is  a  more 
dangerous  foe  to  be  met  in  the  very  common  reluctance 
to  wedded  life,  which  has  grown  up  out  of  the  deprava- 
tion of  modem  society.    Luxury,  fashion,  and  extrava- 
gance have  borne  their  bitter  fruits.    The  clubs  have 
taken  place  of  the  family,  for  thousands  of  young  men 
whose  spendthrift  habits  generally  end  in  their  ruin,  body 
and  soul.    Of  course  those  of  the  other  sex,  with  equal 
devotion  to  aU  the  show  and  heartlessness  of  the  same 
kind  of  life,  naturally  find  their  counterpart  to  the  gay 
and  useless  careers  of  the  bachelors  of  the  club-hou^ 
Even  in  less  fashionable  circles  this  infection  is*  spread- 
ing with  fatal  eflfects.    The  first  and  only  essential  of 
iruirriage,  with  many  young  people,  seems  to  be  money.  * 
And  to  tiiis  meanest  of  all  the  gods  that  men  make  to 
themselves,  they  saciifice  all  that  is  dearest,  sweetest,  best 
of  domestic  life. 

"Marriages  grow  to  be  more  a  matter  of  stocks,  furni- 
ture, and  dress,  with  every  generation.  The  children 
bom  of  much  luxury  and  little  love  (if  bom  at  all,)  be- 
come more  feeble  in  mind  and  body,  and  shorter  lived, 
until  foreigners  who  judge  us  from  our  cities  may  well 
question  whether  Americans  in  the  next  century  will  in- 
herit America.** 

The  prevalence  of  a  pure,  living  Christianity  among  a 
people  is  the  only  sure  safeguard  for  right  ideas  of  the  mar- 
riage relation,  and  the  only  cure  of  the  prevailing  tenden- 


iage,  such 
aisQomer. 
relations, 
stile  b'at- 
>  those  of 
to  seoure 
the  mar- 
led.   Be- 
}  a  more 
eluctance 
deprava- 
extrava- 
bs  have 
ang  men 
din,  body 
th  equal 
he  same 
the  gay 
b-hoiute. 
spread- 
mtial  of 
money.  - 
make  to 
est,  best 

B,  fomi- 
children 
ill,)  be- 
r  lived, 
ay  well 
wiU  in- 

mong  a 
liemar^ 
beuden- 


THB  OUBSE  op  PBOPLiaAOT.  473 

scourge  and  a  ourse-a  wfw      u!\     ^  *^"^*^®»  "^^  * 

might  aw„d  the.  ^JZ^^^zz^!::^  ^' 

were  extinct,  than  tli^f  fi,.;         ^r^^^'^'er  that  the  race 

messenger  of  merey,  outs  short  their  ZT^.d^^;*!' 
earth  of  an  nnmitigated  nuisance.  ^  ^^ 


xxm, 

THE  DEVIL  IN  "LATTER  TIMES." 


HOW  HE  HAS  COMB  DOWN  IN  GREAT  WRATH  BECAUSE  HB 
KNOWS  13E  HAS  BUT  A  SHORT  TIME — SOME  OF  HIS 
MORE  REICENT  DOINGS— THE  SEPOY  MUTINY — THE  SLAVE- 
HOLDERS'   REBELLION — THE    COMMUNE    INSURRECTION    IN 

PARIS  —  THE  DEVIL  IN  NEW  YORK — ^THE  RIOT  OP  1863 

THAT  OP  JULY  12tH,  1871— THE  TAMMANY  RING— PRAUDS 
—MURDERS—  ABORTIONS— PESTILENCES— EARTHQUAKES- 
FIRES— arODERN  INFIDELITY,  HOW  INSIDIOUS  AND  DAN- 
GEROUS— THE  MAJESTY  OF  LAW  SADLY  IMPAIRED. 

The  De^ril  in  these  last  days  is  aroused  to  an  unworted 
craft  and  activity.  As  God  hastens  his  purposes  and 
nears  the  great  and  final  consummation,  the  great  anta- 
gonistic power  is  roused  to  its  last  desperate,  dying 
struggle.  No  doubt  the  gospel  of  peace  and  purity,  of 
light  and  liberty,  is  rapidly  extending  and  taking  posses- 
sion of  the  earth.  Akeady  the  Bible  is  translated  into 
every  principal  language,  and  is  becoming  a  book  known 
and  read  of  all  men.  Christian  civilization  is  extending. 
Christian  literature  is  multiplying.  The  mighty  power 
of  the  press  is  largely  engaged  in  the  interests  of  evan- 


I 


laamiiE  BTOB„  OF  ME  ««.  „g 

hold,  of  despoC  auK""  '"'P<"^"8  the  stLg. 
P«P.I  sea  Jo,  eX^  ""T^Jo  «o  ominously  „  „,  jf. 

P«y  «  broken,  we  mThoL  f„  "  "^T*^"" »'  ">«  ?«- 
of  Satanic  powW  pS  C"ou'  M  "  "«^'''''  ""» 
«^™.  "yet,"  by  «aaon  of  ^e  and^,^™'  *'«'"^  »*ai 
brushes  he  has  met  with  i„  T  '  **  ""*°y  "hrewd 

-o  cra^  and  stiff  inlf  "int  ,hr.^'  ^"''^  "^  8"'™ 
than  ait  in  his  cave's  mouih  g^'S'^^at  t^,""  "'"«  »o- 
go  by  and  biting  Ijis  month T^^  f  P''g"'"»  M  they 
them.  No  longer  canTeliT'^.''^  "'"'■'<"  """'e  at 
i>  the  earth,  seeC  whom  t    ""^'f  "P  "^^  down 

i«  ooming,  and,  by  no  Sstlh  ^  *  "«'"'"'  P"™^ 
take  possession  of  his  oZ^i^^^^"*' "»>»»' to 
come  down  in  his  wraftTh  l;""*,/''^  ">ould  he  not 
forces,  employ  SILt7o:^est^A''t'«"  »%  <^  "s 
perate  onset  ?    He  know»  hit    T  ""'^  one  final,  des- 

TWs  is  precisdy  whaThr;  ;  ^'"  '  *°"  «*'»«• 
he  making     Eventelf  ti^f,''""'^-    ^""^  »  onset  is 
M  iU«str!tionsTsul  ant^7y«»«/fford  "-"1°"^- 

-triking  then  thoserthelasft:^  "ihr/^ ""  ■»- 
ny.  ae  Slaveholders'  rebenil  j  .v  ,  ^^^  "'»«- 
Insurrection  in  Pa™  a^  aS-  **  *'  '*'"  Communal 
"al  agency  in  w„  Th!  T^^  *^""P'^  "^  "»  ^^e'- 
oially  theperpetatioJof  btr  V  °'  ""'^  ™™'  ^P"' 
which  theslighteS' ''"t      '"'r  P-^"«™  before 

of  unutterabfe  shlmtsfa:  ^^1:2  r"' ".'' '''"'* 
not  human.    They  ar;  .o^  b^a^  'Z^l  TZ 


476 


THE    FOOT-PRINTB  OP  SATAN. 


Devil.  Humanity  may  be  suborned  and  made  to  do  the 
bidding  of  the  Devil,  yet  the  act  done  is  none  the  less 
devilish.  And  we  would  give  the  Devil  his  due.  No 
one  will  follow  the  bloody  footsteps  of  the  insurrection  in 
Paris,  and  note  its  appalling  atrocities,  and  yet  doubt  who 
was  the  instigator  and  the  moving  agent. 

But  we  may  not  pass  this  revolting  drama  so  cursorily. 
"  Rule  or  ruin,"  as  in  the  late  uprising  of  a  people  in  the 
interests  of  slavery,  is  again  written  in  flaming  capitals 
"  on  the  vesture  and  on  the  thigh  "  of  the  infernal  king. 
Never  was  this  more  appallingly  illustrated  than  in  the 
late  civil  war  in  France.  Never  before  did  the  earth 
witness  a  more  complete  pandemonium.  The  incarnate 
demon  of  war  had,  we  should  think,  already  glutted  his 
insatiable  maw  in  the  blood  of  the  hundreds  of  thou- 
sands slain  in  the  war  just  closed— a  war  ruthlessly  waged 
by  the  "  right  arm  of  the  Papacy  "  iu  the  interests  of  the 
Scarlet  Beast.  But  still  intent  on  bloodshed  and  slaugh- 
ter and  all  the  horrors  of  the  Pit,  the  most  unparalleled 
barbarities  were  perpetrated  in  Paris.  Not  only  murder 
and  bloodshed,  the  most  relentless  and  brutal,  were  but 
the  common  pastimes  of  the  frenzied  and  demoniac  mob, 

but  there  was  the  most  wanton  destruction  of  property 

conflagrations— the  vandal  hand  ruthlessly  laid  on  the 
most  precious  works  of  art— palaces  burnt— churches  de- 
secrated and  destroyed — ^butcheries  the  most  brutal— and 
a  reign  of  terror  as  if  the  foulest  fiends  of  the  Pit  were 
loosed — and  the  whole  characterized  as  the  most  ruthless 
rebellion  against  all  law,  divine  or  human,  and  pursued 
with  a  wantonness  and  cruelty  unparalleled,  and  termi- 
nated in  fire  and  blood,  which  will  leave  its  marks  on  the 
page  of  history,  never  to  be  eflfaced.  It  is  but  the  natur- 
al cuhnination,  the  legitimate  fruit  of  long  cherished  infi- 
delity and  the  social  and  moral  corruption  of  France. 
The  horrors  of  1789-93  were  exceeded  by  the  demoniac 


W»j. 


j2l.°y„'lw:3j^tA»'  '"eworid  afford,  no 

"MS  and  blesses  We,  but  tha  r„P  •  '^   f  ^  *"  »«8™nd- 

kour  yet  more  repiihelt*     «■-.""?  ''°'°°"'«'>''  »'  the 

Beast  that  ascenS "^j^f  r^*! ''"'P"°'»  <"  ^e 

•       writing  amidst  these  diChn.  st     ^J^J'"'  ^'-    O"" 

"Not  alone  are  the  ewL*    ,    ^'  °'  •">"".  »«ys  : 

of  religion  forbiddeXri:^:?''  ^  P""""  °«'"» 
because  they  are  the  miniXs  of  ™^  '"^'"'  '"'P™™*^ 
ly  for  no  other  oause^e^  »'  "hgion,  and  apparent- 
dedicated  to  God  tn,^e?Lh„  •  .""  "?"'''"'•  *«^e«I, 
means  of  p„blio  pX^^-^Z^X^^!''' ^'^'y  "r  0., 
turned  into  clnbswhZ  ft?'  ;  ''""'*°8«  themselves 
^usiasti^Uly  appla'rdf  oT^lTaS'r?^^"- 
the  nse  of  the  outward  emblems  „f  ~r^  ''"*'  """ 

«oss  itselt  is  absolutely  forWdde^  -f^'"'',  ""*  "  ""• 
an  offence  to  the  lib^tv„f  'I'e  plea  that  it  ig 

-either  wiokedn^  nor  Lf    °"""°"''°-    ^'^-^^  thia 

™^7  signs  of  roCoTltZiZ'  Th"""  f-  .^"^ 
great  ancient  monarchies  of  Wi,  j  ^*  P"''«  "'  «>» 
da  up  to  heaven,  tiu"  Wetth  th^  ""■  """""^  "«  » 
brought  down  to  heU   aZf  ""^^S  ''"'"1.  "  was 

thingl  For  that  was'i^'  ,''°  '""?"<'^  *<•  «^  state  of 
the  nineteenth  oeZ^ltol^''  "'  T"'"^"''  «>-  » 
done  in  nations  wffioSTtw'^ff ''<'''  =  ^'"  "■« 
a  nominally  Christian  „if^  .1^^""  °'  "*'"« !  'Ws  in 
Chrisdan  nation     I^  jt^'  ""  ^  '''"t  of  a  nominally 

wantonly  oute^ed^  "'*  '"^""'y-  "%<"»  were 

volt:^1^r^:;tf:»„^«  Pi^t-eisnotthel^r. 
inflicted  upon  the  womel  rdTiT^P"*"  ^'  •^'"'^       ' 
Ge-any  b^  the  late  Z?    l^Tl  °'  "^  "" 
enced  by  one  child  that  dL  Tl      ^"  '^ony  experi- 

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478 


THE  FOOT-PBINTB  OF  SATAN 


of  age  died  of  starvation  in  the  siege  of  Paris.  The 
thought  of  war's  terrible  injustice  to  helpless  women  and 
children  is  enough  to  fire  every  man  that  has  a  heart, 
with  a  holy  enthusiasm  in  the  cause  of  peace. 

But  we  propose  to  come  nearer  home  and  nearer  to 
our  own  times  for  our  illustration.  We  need  not  go 
beyond  New  York  city.  Never  were  the  footprints  of  an 
infernal  agency  more  distinctly  impressed.  Here  we  re- 
cognize the  handiwork  of  him  who  is  the  arch-enemy  of 
all  right  and  truths  of  all  peace  and  purity.  Btit  here  we 
must  indulge  in  detail.  And  we  begin  with  the  riot  of 
July  12th,  1871.  Yet  this  was  but  the  re-enactment  of 
the  diabolical  scenes  which  disgraced  the  streets  of  New 
York  in  the  summer  of  1863.  The  same  parties  were 
then  engaged,  the  same  demoniac  *Bpirit  fired  them  to 
madness,  and  the  same  end  was  aimed  at.  As  in  the  for- 
mer so  in  the  latter  case,  it  was  but  the  natural,  the  spon- 
taneous outburst  of  Papal  intolerance,  bigotry,  persecu- 
tion and  priestly  tyranny ;  the  same  spirit  which  made 
the  inquisition,  the  stake,  and  the  block  the  strong  argu- 
ments of  the  Papacy.  Nothing  but  the  strong  arm  of 
Government  squelched  at  the  very  outset  the  evil  demon, 
which,  if  unchecked,  would  have  blasted  the  last  germ 
of  civil  and  religious  liberty  in  our  land,  and  consigned 
to  the  dens  and  caves  of  the  earth  the  last  vestige  of  our 
Protestant  faith.  It  was  but  the  beginning  of  desola- 
tions, which,  by  bloodshed  and  devastatioQ,  would  have 
laid  waste  our  fair  land  and  estabUshed  upon  its  ruins  the 
throne  of  the  Scarlet  Beast,  with  the  Bible,  and  the  com- 
mon school,  and  free  thought  and  civil  and  religibus  liber- 
ty trampled  beneath  the  tread  of  an  unmitigated  spirit- 
ual despotism. 

Such  was  the  desperate  onslaught  of  1863,  and  no 
thanks  to  our  inveterate  foe,  or  to  his  liege  lords  in 
Cbtham,  that  the  dire  attempt  failed.    Of  one  thing  we 


BOME,  UBERTT  AND  TBI  BIBLE.  479 

may  rest  assurecf,  that  there  is  nothing  the  DevH  so  cor 
diaUj  hates  as  an  open  Bible,  con,m!n  eduoaUon    frej 

Mir  r^  t"  ''¥°"-  ^^  -  *^«««  -e  "entified 
Tw  *^^;"«***"*»°"«  of  America,  we  may  be  equally  sure 
that  our  Enemy,  clad  in  the  canonicals  of  Borne  wHl  not 
be^ly  diverted  from  his  designs  on  this  K  Z 

Hence  the  persistent,  unscrupulous  poUticaJ  warfare 
the    mfaUible    High  Pnest  at  Rome,  down  throuRh  aU 

^tutT^.*'  *''  '""''^^*  '"'^l  P"-*'  -o  stonei  left 
unturned,  no  device  untried,  no  scheme  so  unscrupulous 
as  not  to  be  adopted  to  compass  the  desired  end  the  su! 
premacy   of    the    Romish  power.     And    Rome    never 
changes,    ^at  she  was  in  the  days  of  the  daZt  ages 
she  IS  m  spirit  now     If  she  does  not  attempt  to  shutTt 
all  Lght,  seal  up  the  Bible  and  keep  the  people  in  igno 
ranee  and  in  the  most  abject  servility  to 'the^ierarS;. 
It  IS  simfjy  .because  she  cannot-beoause  times  have 
changed,  the  world  has  advanced,  light  has  shone  ovir 

it  A  ^.  T  °^  *^'  '^^^'  ^'^"^^^  "g^*«  ^«  -eknow- 
ledged,  and  of  consequence  spiritual  tyramiy  is  checked. 
It  IS  simply  for  the  want  of  power.  The  lion  chained  is 
not  the  less  a  hon.  It  was  but  the  same  old  leaven  at 
work  tha  m  1863  attempted  to  reproduce  in  New  York 
the  appaUing  scenes  of  the  St.  Bartholomew  massacres- 
deluging  the  streets  in  blood,  burning  hospitals,  destroy- 
ing  schools,  and  devastating  churches. 

And  it  was  but  the  outcropping  of  the  same  spurit- 
and  whence  that  spirit  if  not  from  beneath  ?-the  un- 
changing spirit  of  persecuting  Rome,  which  instigated, 
and  to  the  extent  of  its  power,  perpetrated,  the  outrages 
of  July  12th  of  the  year  (1871).  This  day  has  W 
been  observed  by  the  «  Orangemen  "  in  commemoration 
Of  the  signal  victory,  under  the  leadership  of  William, 


480 


IHB  r00T-PBIKT8    OF  SATAN. 


Prince  of  Orange,  of  Protestantism  over  Papal  tyrannj 
in  Ireland.  It  is  of  oonsequenoe  a  day  cordially  hated 
by  all  Irish  Catholics,  and  hence  the  outrages,  the  blood- 
shed and  murders  of  that  day.  But  we  do  not  propose 
to  go  into  details  here.  An  allusion  to  the  disgraoe- 
fol  scenes  of  that  eventful  day  is  enough  to  call  up  memc  - 
ries  the  most  painful.  The  BeOiPt  for  a  little  time  was 
unchained  that  he  might  again  for  a  little  space  devour 
and  lay  waste  just  enough  to  keep  the  world  apprised 
of  his  unchanged  nature,  and  what  he  would  do  if  not  re- 
strained. 

But  the  Papal  Beai|t,  acting  ostensibly  as  a  religions 
power,  is  not  the  only  beastly  power  that  assumes  to  rule 
and  riot  in  our  great  metropolis.  It  is  the  Scarlet  Beast 
in  another  costume,  stiU  struggling  for  power,  especially 
for  the  power  of  money,  and  aiming  a  deadly  blow  at  the 
life  of  our  free  government  and  free  religion.  The  name 
assumed  is  the  "  Tammany  Bing,"  and  if  it  be  not  a  verit- 
able personification  of  the  Bomish  Papacy,  it  is  an  auxi- 
liary agency,  proffered  on  its  part  and  accepted  and  used 
by  Bome  for  the  subversion  of  all  civil  and  religious 
freedom,  and  to  establish  in  our  land  a  reign  of  the 
Papacy. 

Our  business  with  the  Bing,  is  as  an  agency  of 
Satan  employed  hj  the  enemy  of  all  good  in  our  great 
metropolis.  In  despite  of  an  immense  amount  of  good 
in  New  York  there  is  a  controlling  power  for  evil.  But 
we  insist  upon  no  special  designation  here.  It  is  enough 
that  the  Devil  has  "  come  down  "  unto  our  great  Babylon, 
proclaiming  woe,  woe,  unto  the  inhabiters  thereof.  We 
accept  the  aforementioned  Bing  as  a  veritable  incar- 
nation. 

And  what  is  the  record  of  the  Bing  ?  As  serpentlike  it 
has  dragged  its  slimy  length  along  through  every  slough 
of  intemperance,  licentiousness,  deception,  theft,  gam- 


TM  BINO  AND  IT8  OONSTITUENTB. 


bling  and  aU  manner  of  dflvl.f^ 
fraud  .a.,  put,  the  veri«  tXt  if  "m  "  .'  ""P"' »' 
not  preU,ud  fc,  foUow  it,  «,!^lu„„  '^?  '"'"'>.  we  may 
'"gs-    We  o«n  oiUy  delTT      ^'  "'"''"^'""■"l  wind- 

we  fear,  that,  who^H,,:, "w  ^tT  ""t  ""«"' truth 
«>ng,  we  are  safe  in  plaoin„  th„  ^,  ^  ""'"'"'"'  »'  ""• 
e».  felon,  and  ib/luol! ^^^  ^ }°''''''- f"->  ^>!^^ 
drunkard,  and  gambler,.  Yfr°1ll  ^°™'-  ™«'»«"«™. 
united  are  not  the  authors  o/  T  i^^  Pf""'"""  """des 
which  may  juaUy  be  wt^t  i  .""  °'  *«  niiwhief 
Bing.fa„J/    "'  "^  "'  »'  ^e  door  of  the  notorious 

Pit,  is  that  it  hal  rtrSS^  a  dtaSt' "»  ""^^t.'"  ^'"°  ""> 
^^«'-    n  has  corrupted  ^e  2ia  ?  ^^       1""'"''^  °' 
the  representative,  of  Te  lawT^'  fi""*  "■  '»''8''tnp 
thief,  the  murderer,  the  meanCror  th   '>,  """"'nal-the 
»or,  if  he  be  of  the  '•  gan^"  or  „1  K^?"^'*™'  "'""Bres- 
parchaw  its  favor  maVLr.i     i  ^  l-nbe  or  otherwiw, 
langh  the  lawgivl^  t^^J:^  \  T'««'»  »'  Jn«tice  and 
same  degree,  aU  honest  i^.',..  •       "^"^e^nently,  in  the 
fee)  that  Si  r^jh,  aTTuia^'^Tthr"""  "T  ""^^  '" 
80  notoriously  have  fr»l!i  ^  u      *  """y  "'  '^e  mob, 
pnblio  fund8,'ohrote^^'  th    T'^'.  «""«^*e   " 
Kng.    Thei;whasnoCorev:nto^''"'"'f?  "'  *« 
i.  lawless,  if  he  may  find  Z^:i':^^'jZ'  *""'*""■ 

A  few  facts  and  flsuraa  »,ii  .n    '  ®  •'""K' 
the  management  of  tfe  L„^    .'r^""-    ^nd  take  flr,t 
oity.    These  "  thieves  "arrS  "  f"  ^'^'^  <"  ^ew  York 
npward  of  fifty  Sn  o  fd'o^^T^''.^  "^  ^'o'e- 
competent  men  who  are  stUlTri  ""*  "P™""  °* 

real  amount  embezzLHor  '°°i",?^,""°  <»"  affairs,  the 
-"Hon  They  hrilXte^t;!^^":'''"'^'^ 
A  veiy  fewyears  of  the  like^™,,  orl^^'^^^^i:^- 


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I 


482  THE  FOOT-PBINTS  OP  SATAN. 

see  the  entire  aggregate  of  the  real  estate  of  the  city 
virtually  mortgaged  for  the  debt. 

The  following  are  a  few  of  the  details.  The  new  Gonrt 
House  at  once  looms  up  as  a  monument  of  Tammany's 
honesty.  Though  by  no  means  completed  it  has  already 
cost  more  than  112,000,000.  Then  come  in  biUs  for 
more  than  $5,663,000  for  furniture  of  the  Oourt  House 
and  repairs  of  armories  and  driU  rooms ;  for  plastering 
and  repairs  $2,370,464;  for  plumbing  and  gas  works, 
$1,231,817.46 ;  for  awnings,  $23,653.61.  These  four  bills 
give  an  aggregate  of  more  than  $9,000,000. 

We  can  only  judge  what  the  amount  of  the  grand 
swindle  would  be,  by  the  fragmentary  items  which  have 
slipped  out  of  the  common  budget.  The  httle  charge  for 
the  public  printing  for  two  years  is  $1,401,269  ;  foy  sta- 
tionery, $871,373  ;  for  advertising,  $369,184.  A  total  of 
$2,641,828  for  these  three  items. 

The  following  is  a  bill  for  work,  furniture,  etc.,  covering 
only  three  months : 

FurtaJture. 

County $2,619,639  23 

City 240,564  63— $2,860,203  86 

Plaster,  etc. 

County $2,906,464  06 

City. . . . .  i 126,161  90— $3,031,625  96 

Plumbing,  etc. 

County $1,231,817  76 

City 1,149,874  50— $2,381,692  26 

CarperUer-toork,  etc. 

County $1,421,755  42 

City 88,074  29— $1,509,829  71 

Safes. 

County $404,347  72 

City 19,08000—  $423,427  72 


TAJOONTS  AOCOUNTO.  ^ 

rt      ,                             Aumings.     ' 
5"'' W1.746  83 

; p„;-;-  *fioo-  tismss 

^arpenter-toork. 

^""^ »62,360  46 

•■•■•■;•■  ^^•''5360-     $88,11400 

^ftT^ $256,833  51 

^ •* ; 151,480  86—  $408314  37 

Connf.          -^'^^^^^P'  Printvag  Association.  ^ 

Cu"^ $127,73576 

Connt^  i^nnitn^  Company. 

C^^ $1,575,98954 

•^ • 260,283  81— $1 836  27<l  qk 

^««^admn^  ^to^i,^,,.     *^'»36,273  36 

Cr^-^ $97,88121 

^ 186,49961-  $284,38082 

Total ,  ~- 

$13,151,198  39 

cit?'  Tht  ^  ^T*^"'  '^"""P*"  ^^  P'^blio  parks  of  the 
city.    The  annual  expenditure  for  their  care  Irl  mo,'  T 

the  embezzlement  of  the  Einu     « <5„ni,  .     *   .  .t  • 
says  an  enemv  of  UirRW  «  °*'  "'  "'"*^«''" 

thi  world  tefore  "    T^^^'    T''  ™"  '^'^'^  *» 
andsteall™^"^d!,'';"  7'^  '^•"'-  business,  lie, 
\r,A  *i.    "'^*'^v,  ana  wealth  and  honor  are  before  vou  " 

rrea.    ihough  the  «<t^,enrf  is  of  much  less  account  than 


ite 


i'l 


sUfi! 


f 'f*|f  , 


484 


IBE    FOOT-PRINTS  OP  SATAN. 


the  "  pickings,"  yot  these  honest  officials  are  here,  too, 
"  wiser  in  their  generation  than  the  children  of  light," 
providing  not  only  for  themselves  but  for  their  house- 
holds.   P.  B.  S and  four  of  his  relatives  have  the 

credit  of  receiving  salaries  to  the  amount  of  $164,000 
a  year— himself  $128,000,  besides  his.  salary  and  "  pick- 
ings" as  State  Senator.    Nor  is  S an  exception. 

Other  members  of  the  Bing  come  in  for  a  yet  larger 

share  of  the  spoil.    T has  the  lion's  share.    And  of 

the  scores — the  hundreds  of  subordinates  who  are  re- 
ceiving exorbitant  salaries,  the  most  are  paid  to  non- 
occupants,  if  not  to  non-existents.  On  the  advent  of  an 
honest  man  (Assistant  Controller  Green)  into  one  de- 
partment, more  than  three  score  and  ten  were,  within  a 
few  weeks,  dismissed  as  useless  incumbents.  Nor  are 
we  to  suppose  this  any  exception  to  the  prodigal  expen- 
diture in  other  departments  of  municipal  affairs.  As  the 
frauds  perpetrated  in  the  different  departments  have  been 
exposed,  we  have  seen  scores  of  assistant  clerks  and  other 
supernumeraries  reported  in  each,  all  drawing  salaries — 
or  oftener  others  drawing  in  their  names — names  which 
have  no  existence  but  in  fiction  and  fraud. 

It  is  believed  safe  to  say  that  not  a  tithe  of  the  money 
drawn  from  the  treasury  to  pay  bills  presented,  have 
gone  to  pay  for  services  ever  rendered,  or  material  fur- 
nished, and  not  a  tithe  of  the  men  for  whom  salaries  were 
drawn  ever  rendered  service,  if  they  had  any  existence  at 
aU. 

But  pecuniary  frauds,  embezzlements  and  thievings 
are  but  the  beginning  of  the  diabolical  end  compassed  by 
the  Ring.  Everything  dear  to  a  free  people  is  perilled. 
In  their  efforts  to  entrench  themselves  securely,  the 
Tammany  rulers  struck  a  deadly  blow  at  everything 
honorable  in  public  life.  They  have  done  more  to  de- 
bauch the  press  than  anything  or  anybody  in  recent 


A  HOLOCAUST  OF  WICKEDNESS.  ^qS 

-Jien  faith.    The  commZtlT/^TT^^'^''^  '<-"» 

soum  of  the  earth  mavlZl     T"'/"  °"J"  ^at  the 

value.    This  fa  a  daS  TL  kT'^'S^  »»  aeir  M 
the  reaUty.  '^'°'"«' """  "  «  not  so  dark  as 

hasfoUowed.    IntZSelr    '""'  '"  '»'«  «"»«» 
orgies.    Lust  poZ^ZTo^^^  ""maddened  drunkea 
shamelessly  an^  de«eTy      ^'i^»' P-'7 -ost 
n>ake  your  streets  hideous  wmI     ^''''f'-b"aiiBg  will 
schools  wiU  be  robW  owfBr''  ?  "™''"^'  y°« 
every  moral  influence     C  ^  ^ible  mflueuce,  and  so  of 
shambles  where  Soe  kT  T^  °'  J"«'^<»  ""!  be 
your  whole  oommlr^  tfh'"''  ""  "^  ""«»'. 
in  axe  mouth  of  the  wor^  B  i»  JT"^  '"''  "  ''y-*°«» 
.  orisis  inour  municipal  Wsto^  "  1^^"",  ""I »  mighty 
out  doubt  ormisgiviij  feel  tZif    iT        '"''  "■«»•  ""h- 
"foat  stake.    aSn  W -^    ."^ '°-   ^  good  things 
^0  morals,  so  h^Sic  o  der  Th"  '"^-  ^  '"^^'^^ 
morality,  so  has  the  go^Z.!  ^  f^  '  f  """^  P"'^''"'^ 
justice-honesty.  "'  *^  metropolis,  so  has 

m^r^erf ist'^ra  SS^'^"'  ""^  »''^-  '- 
«nd  sadi    What  aVL  »„  ^^^,  "^'*  apprehensive 

what  drunkennl  ^17-^1°' 3"'  '^T''' 
sorts  centre  here  I  What  .J.  *  P'o^aoy  of  aU 
our  people!  WbA  JlZ  \-  "'^'""^  characterizes 
Whafa^ordfrf     ~Zf °"  r"*". »-,''«''  P>«es  1 

make  thia  city  the  sSLeTf  tW     ""P"""*'*!  """tures 
J  me  scene  of  their  nefanous  pursuits)" 


486 


THE  FOOT-PRINTS  OF  SATAN. 


i 


Then  there  are  the  hidden  works  of  darkness  that  elade 
all  scrutiny,  and  yet,  from  police  investigations  and  me- 
dical testimony,  vre  can  make  some  calculations  of  the 
numbers  of  those  who  are  leading  a  life  of  shame.  It 
will  be  safe  to  say  that  there  are  7,500  prostitutes  and 
2,500  other  women  who  visit  houses  of  assignation,  etc., 
making  a  total  of  10,000.  The  value  of  the  real  and  per- 
sonal property  invested  in  the  business  cannot  be  short 
of  $5,000,000.  And  the  amount  of  money  spent  in 
houses  of  ill-fame,  and  the  amounts  required  for  the  ex- 
penses of  criminal  and  human  i  institutions  growing  out  of 
the  terrible  evil,  must  make  a  total  of  $5,000,000  more. 
And  then  the  dreadful  havod  here  on  health  and  hu- 
man life!  The  average  duration  of  life  after  entering 
on  a  course  of  prostitution  is  four  years.  So  that  more 
than  1,800  of  these  miserable  women  die  every  year. 

But  the  New  York  Devil  is  not  a  single  personage.  He* 
is  a  triime  god,  three  persons,  or  three  great  devils.  They 
are  Fraud,  Intemperance  and  Licentiousness,  inspired 
by  the  goddess  Fashion.  Under  the  fascinations  of  fash- 
ion, ''  the  filth  of  Paris  has  been  gathered  as  the  gold  of 
Ophir."  In  the  name  of  art  and  refinement  come  vulgar 
display  and  v/ild  extravagance,  lascivious  pleasures,  theat- 
rical abominations  and  domestic  ruin.  In  our  churches, 
it'omen,  given  to  the  god  of  fashion,  sit  at  our  commu- 
nion tables.  Folly  flaunts  its  finery  in  our  best  pews.  A 
rogue  purchases  immunity  by  endowing  a  church,  or 
building  a  hospital. 

If  we  may  judge  of  the  character  of  the  demand  from 
the  supply,  we  meet  a  very  good  criterion  in  any  of  our 
large  furnishing  depots.  Go  into  the  house  of  A.  T. 
Stewart  and  inquire  the  price  simply  of  ladies'  shawls. 
"  Brussels  point  of  the  purest  white  $1,000 ;  point  ap- 
pUque,  $1,000;  black  chantilly  $1,600.  Or,  betferthan 
all,  bordered  with  autumn  leaves,  $5,000."    This  pur- 


A  WIFE  WORTH  HAHNO. 


487 


ies'  shawls. 


ful  to  makeup  a  modern  fashionable  lady--aZrcrea 

err  z^^^j^irx:^Fr 

matched  and  Senator  has   fl.^    ^  .      J^"^ 

them  all.  ^^   *^^  ^^^'««*  ^e  of 

But  the  Ring  of  modem  celebrity  is  no  new  design  of 
Satamc  agency.  IWngs,  confederacies,  juntas,  monopdies 
have  been  his  darling  schemes  by  wiich  to  wo^  ^ 
"Elt     V7^;^  ^^'"  *^^  "Canal  Ring"  ^: 

theballotT        ff:^"^.  '*  ''*^^^°^'  *^«  °°-"Ption  of 
the  baUot-box  and  of  the  legislature,  frauds,  false  weighte 

and  adulterations,  dishonest  mercantile  practices,  af  in! 
sane    passion  for    speculation  and  gambling-"  keno " 
faro     and  aU  the  mysteries  of  the  gambling  hell.    And 
a  plenty  of  poUticians  there  are,  who,  that  they  may  gain 
place,  power  and  good  "  pickings,"  would  not  hesitate  to 
seU  us  to  Rome,  to  bum  our  Bible,  to  abolish  our  Sabbath 
and  free  schools,  and  to  deluge  our  land  in  mm  and  ruin 
But  our  hero  does  not  confine  himself  to  New  York 
city.    If  not  omnipresent,  he  has  peculiar  capabilities  of 
locomotion.    Such  wonderful  ubiquity  has  he  that  while 
we  are  watohing  his  movements  in  onr  great  metropolis 
we  hear  of  his  doings  in  London,  in  Paris,  in  Rome, 
seemmgly  aU  at  the  same  moment.    His  late  presence 
and  presidency  at  the  CEoumenical  Council  of  Rome  de- 
serves special  notice  in  the  records  of  his  doings  in  these 
latter  days.    His  most  faithful  allies  and  genial  friends 


hlii 


488 


THE  FOOT-PRINTS  OP  SATAN. 


the  Jesuits,  having  labored  most  insidiously  and  inde- 
fatigably  for  many  a  long  year,  to  regain  lost  power  and 
if  possible  to  consummate  the  supremacy  of  the  Papacy, 
now,  as  a  dernier  resort  anc*  •'  -  -^rckto  atl«mpt,  instigated 
the  calling  of  the  council.  g,  through  the  Pope, 

already  a  controlling  infiu6i.-«j  at  th^  Vatican,  they 
thought,  in  his  authorized  supremacy,  to  secure  for  the 
order  the  supreme  control  of  the  nations.  Hence  their 
indefatigable,  unscrupulous  scheming  for  the  infallibility 
of  the  Pope.  And,  in  then:  supposed  success,  is  verified 
in  the  Romish  Hierarchy,  the  last  sign  of  the  great 
Apostasy.  Now  "  that  man  of  sin  is  revealed,"  "  so  that 
he  as  God  sitteth  in  the  temple  of  God,  showing  himself 
(or  claiming)  that  he  is  God." 

Thus  the  fearful  climacteric,  the  dizzy  height  of  Papal 
usurpation  being  reached,  we  need  not  wonder  that  the 
divine  forbearance  was  exhausted.  Heaven  could  bear 
no  more.  The  very  next  day — some  say  the  very  day — 
the  heaven-provoking  act  of  the  infallibility  dogma  was 
passed,  heaven's  indignation  burst  forth  in  the  form  of 
that  dreadful  war  waged  on  the  part  of  the  French  Em- 
peror (the  right  arm  of  the  Papacy)  for  the  defence  of 
the  Romish  Hierarchy,  but  overruled  by  indignant 
heaven  to  the  downfall  of  his  Imperial  Majesty  and  as  an 
awful  scourge  and  humiliation  to  France. 

Never  did  the  Devil  more  signally  outwit  himself. 
Like,  as  in  his  first  rebellion  when  he  essayed  to  usurp 
the  throne  of  the  Most  High,  he  now  thought  to  exalt  a 
poor  mortal  into  the  place  of  God,  that  he  should  be  wor- 
shipped as  God.  But  how,  in  that  thunderbolt  of  war  at 
once  let  loose  on  France,  the  strong  arm  of  the  Papacy, 
was  "hell  from  beneath  moved  to  meet  him  at  his 
coming."  "  It  stirred  up  all  the  chief  ones  of  the  earth, 
it  raised  up  from  their  thrones  the  kings  of  the  nations." 
Already  is  their  "  pomp  brought  down,"  and  we  seem  to 


MPEBT  BEAUZED  IN  TOANOE.  4gg 

which  did  wLt;  the  re??  °"'  -^"^  '"  «">  8™-> 

Hereis  th/beau  ideal  of  wL^rr"  n"^.*"  ^^• 
do  for  the  world     PoL      V^      «^°''  °^  ^">»  o*" 

ma,  proudl/r^^eat  tllt^.^Tr;  t  'T''''' 
Babylon  that  I  have  biiilt »"    w  .  ""^  '""^  S'^** 

possessed  of  ever/ Xtage!;^!:!!^'" ->?«-. 
science,  wealth    oiilfnr«  „  ^  m"«ary  power,  of  art, 

be,  wh™  e^2g  aXTeWnr"?"'..^^''"--  <"- 
Papal  Bo.e.  it  prop' rt^C'eTs  t  rf  T  "' 
power,  the  triune  god  of  France  k  f1  •  *%''°"''-»">»g 
ness  and  Infidelity  And  nnTi  ^  ™'  I'"=«»«'>»s- 
ehall  come  out  L  be  Ina^a^  T  "^  '"'  ^''  '^  »■"> 
don.orah.ing  than! e'lSrido/r  "  '^^'^'"  -""  '^ 

the  fashion.    In  nothinHr^         mfidehty,  Paris  rules 

foot-prints  of  Z^vll^      \T"  ^''^""^^^  ^'^  "»« 
infidehtv     Tt  T    ,"*'''»■'  ">  "le  prevalence  of  modem 

Of  the"' p::;:  'd ;  X""Drt '?™''r  '"/■'^"'^ 

preacher,  teacher,  author  anv^hil  "    turned  reformer, 
tion  aTbu^  1 1     ''^"^f""^  P'«*y-  »"  ""fa  of  fi^ 


i'  i'<i 


'  1 1 


490 


THE    rOOT-PMNTS  OF  3ATAN. 


oharacteristdo  feature.  The  following  paragraph  very 
aptly  expresses  what  we  mean. 

"  The  fact  of  Christ's  life  and  death,  the  purity  of  His 
character,  and  the  sublime  and  elevated  nature  of  His 
teachings  are  acknowledged  by  both  good  and  bad.  In- 
fidelity assumes  a  -different  position.  Instead  of  denying 
the  Bible,  it  accepts  it  oonditionaUy — ^it  is  an  excellent 
book,  but  full  of  imperfections — not  to  be  taken  as  a 
guide,  but  as  a  help  containing  both  truth  and  error. 
Satan  has  grown  wiser  by  his  long  experience  with  man. 
He  has  found  that  he  cannot  carry  the  citadel  by  storm, 
and  so  he  has  resorted  to  sapping  and  mining.  He 
knows  that  when  he  can  get  men  to  receive  the  Bible 
with  the  same  respect,  and  no  more,  which  they  do  any 
other  good  book — he  has  gained  his  end — it  will  in  time 
share  a  like  fate  with  them.  And  what  makes  this  for  m 
of  infidelity  the  more  dangerous,  is  the  strange  fact  that 
it  assumes  to  be  a  religious  belief,  the  foundation  of 
a  Christian  Church."  A  strange  mixture  of  blasphemy 
and  religion,  of  rank  infidelity  and  pretended  reverence 
for  God. 

But  these  social,  civil  and  religious  eruptions  and  re- 
volutions are  but  a  part  of  the  modem  evolutions  of  the 
Wicked  One  whereby  to  make  his  power  known,  if  not  to 
perpetuate  his  reign  upon  the  earth.  Nature  responds. 
Or  rather  the  god  of  this  world  uses  the  tremendous 
agencies  of  nature  to  make  his  power  felt,  or  to  compass 
his  ends.  Hence  earthquakes  in  divers  places,  famines, 
pestilences,  floods  and  tornadoes,  and  these  latter  terrific 
agencies  of  nature,  now  more  frequent  and  disastrous 
than  ever  before,  submerging  whole  cities  and  towns,  and 
spreading  devastation  over  large  portions  of  country. 

The  famine  in  Persia  swept  over  almost  the  entire 
length  and  breath  of  the  land.  The  people  in  every  city 
and  village  died  by  hundreds.    In  Ispahan  the  ravages 


MmSE,  PIX)0D,  TOBHADO. 


491 


aZ,^^:  ^  ""S''^  '  **"»  "«  «»■»?'  from  the 
dreadMT.Mt.faon.    "Penaa,"  say,  a  dispatoh,  "Im^ 

hkely  to  suffer  to  the  utmost  extent  aU  the  pomible^T 
seq™"-'  o'.ae  great  disasters  of  f..^Je^aZZ 
that  have  ,^thm  some  mouths  past  ravaged  herfaS 
provmoes.  lusurreotiou  is  the  latest  oalfmity  w 
rscfaous  have  takeu  place  at  Shiraz  aud  at^Sriz  No 
doubt  as  ™ter  oomes  ou  aud  this  year's  sor^sup^; 
of  food  IS  exhausted,  the  people,  frautio  with  hu^gS 
despair,  ,.dl  cease  to  regard  any  control  but  that  K 
vy  lustmot,  and  the  couutrr  "Ul  be  still  further  deyl 
tated  by  general  pillage  and  murder.  Three  ZZZ 
d.ej«ly,  and  tens  of  thousands    are   depentnt  "n 

Passing  by  the  unprecedented  number  of  floods  storms 
»d  tornadoes  that  have  dev«,tated  many  ^Z^Z 

Side  of  the  globe.  A  correspondent  says,  "The  whok 
counfay  m  the  neighborhood  of  Tien-tsh.  China,  faL- 
nndated,  and  communication  only  possible  by  boat  The 
crops  are  destoyed  aiid  large  numbers  of  cattle  and  hu- 
man  bemgs  have  been  drowned.    The   survivors   ate 

T^t"h'  "^  ^-^'"^^  o-P-g  on  the  I^wl 
Their  houses,  which  are  built  chiefly  of  mud.  are  washe,! 
.way.  Great  distress  will  evidently  prev^  'Zi^h  tt' 
wmter  and  even  though  rice  may  be  provided  by  botmo! 

Z^  ^tt   ^'.^"^  "^  throughout  the  N^th  is  the 

"  Thefact  m«y  be  difficult  to  realize,  but  itis  a  fact  that 
seve.^  people  have  been  drowned  in  the  streets  of  Pekin 
—in  the  sloughs  of  mud  and  water. 

The  North  China  Berald  says  that  at  Tungchow; 
people  are  up  to  their  waists  m  water,  m  the  p Ic^' 


i  III* 


'   ii 


192 


THE  lOOT-PRINTS  OP  SATAN. 


streets.  An  appeal  for  charity  has  come  down  from 
Newohwang  to  aid  the  survivors  of  a  village  which  han 
been  entirely  swept  away  by  the  flood.  Some  1,200  lives 
are  reported  to  have  been  lost." 

In  New  Chiang  twenty  thousand  square  miles  of  ter- 
ritory was  inundated  and  a  thousand  persons  were 
drowned. 

A  telegram  from  Constantinople  brings  intelligence 
that  the  city  of  Antiooh,  in  Syria,  has  been  visited  by  an 
earthquake,  causing  terrible  loss  of  life.  The  dispatch 
states  that  one  half  of  the  city  was  totally  destroyed  and 
1,600  persons  lost  their  lives.  Great  distress  prevails  in 
that  portion  of  the  city  not  demolished,  and  the  remain- 
ing inhabitants  are  sadly  in  need  of  assistance. 

Advices  from  Zanzibar  say:  The  island  had  been 
visited  by  a  terrible  hurricane.  One  hundred  and  fifty 
vessels  of  all  classes  were  sunk  or  stranded  on  the  coast. 
The  town  of  Zanzibar  was  badly  damaged,  and  the  loss 
was  estimated  at  $10,000,000. 

Whether  it  be  earthquake,  or  flood  or  tornado,  or 
famine  or  pestilence,  it  speaks  "  woe,  woe,  to  the  inhabit- 
ants of  the  earth." 

But  we  pass  to  the  great  event  of  this  eventful  year, 
the  fires  of  Chicago  and  the  Northwest.  But  why 
intimate,  it  will  be  asked,  that  these  and  the  like 
dreadful  casualties  which  come  in  the  shape  of  fires, 
earthquakes,  storms,  and  tornadoes,  are,  in  any  sense,  the 
handiwork  of  the  Devil?  No  doubt  they  are  permitted, 
restrained  and  overruled  by  the  divine  Hand.  Still,  if 
there  were  no  Devil  we  apprehend  these  things  would 
never  be.  Though  it  be  not  conceded  th&t  he  is  neces- 
sarily the  originator  and  instigator  of  them,  it  will  not  be 
denied  that  he  runs  riot  in  them  as  the  delight  of  his 
sool. 

We  have  been  especially  struck  with  the  terms  inoi- 


16  remain- 


9rms  mci- 


deserving  ange.,-eJ^Ta":il'-a"^'"=    ""» 
heU  of  fire,"  "ran  1!ir„  .  . '       *  ™8">8'  roaring 

victory,"  ..^,he™i„w:?rr  '"■"  '^'"'  ""^ 

its  «,  a  (ergo."    The  "r?ij!  17«  '*'""'^  "'  ''«"  »«" 

Sodom  and  Gomotah"  w  ftll  ,?  "'^  ''""""»'«'  » 

compared  with  the  devasTIuI     °*°^    ""^  ''"'"j'  >« 

Chicago."    "  The  lind  t"?"?,.'""?  »'  «■«  «'e-fie»d  in 

element,  whiaUed  I^  Cwl^  IT  1*,  *«  ^"'^ 

the  Btreeta,  urgi^^  J^^yil^onteS        '^,  '^'"'8 

feat»-to  fresh  orgies."    "  Ah  hf,  SI    •  !^°'"°  '""' 

gloat  in  fiendish  See  "    "  Th^  nil  1    Z"  ^"'"''^  '^«'" 

-  grand,  so  ma^ifi^ent  a^tZf  "^  1*»  ^'"7"' 

beauty  and  her  strftnafh  io  i  .,.^^,  *S°'  glorious  in  her 

^theSng  breltrCSg  a^r  "  '^''™  "^  ^ 

»d  haU  a^d„l'':C^tf::':„^7«7.  Michigan, 

Northwest.  The  tornadoes  of  A.^  .^*''"'°"«»  »'  &« 
that  drove  with  lSlT,lrfr'^l''""''8  clouds 

ominously  terrifio  The  Z!^  *""«''  *'''  »'^'  *«» 
the  last  4  had  com^- t^^d^J^trr?''' 
rio5  ^frrnrir  '"t  "'  '"■-'o™  wZmyste. 

= if ^^-'^^  -Xt: 

woods,  bams,  houses  and  even  the  "2"  J^' 

while  large  baUs  o/  fir.  ^  f .     "^'    "^^^  ^^  ^^^* 

every  din  "t.^^^^^^^  ^-ting  in 


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THE  POOT-PRENTS    0?  8ATAN. 


brioity,  helped  on  the  work  of  deatruotion  and  death. 
Mr.  A.  Eirby  says  he  saw  large  bodies  or  balls  of  fire  in 
the  air,  and  when  they  oame  in  oontaot  with  anything, 
they  would  bound  thirty  or  forty  rods  away.  Others 
testify  that  they  saw  large  clouds  of  fire  burst  into  frag- 
ments, and  in  Home  instances  great  tongues  of  fire  like 
lightning  would  issue  from  these  dark  clouds  and  light 
upon  the  buildings.  Pennies  were  melted  in  the  pockets 
of  persons  who  were  but  little  humeri.  A  small  bell 
upon  an  engine,  and  a  new  stove,  both  standing  from 
twenty  to  forty  feet  from  any  building,  were  melted. 

And  who  could  have  witnessed  those  strange  pheno- 
mena unmoved  ?  If  people  who  visit  the  ruins  since  the 
fire  are  forced  to  think  that  God  hid  his  face  in  wrath 
and  sent  forth  his  thunderbolts  of  destruction;  nay, 
that  he  gave  the  very  fiends  of  hell  the  right  and  power 
to  shake  the  place  and  bum  it  up,  what  must  have  be^i 
the  feelings  of  those  who  passed  through  the  fiery 
ordeal  ? 

In  Wisconsin  alone  from  1,200  to  1,800  perished  in  the 
flames,  and  more  than  ten  times  the  last  number  were 
made  homeless  and  destitute. 

Some  testify  that  the  fire  did  not  come  upon  them 
gradually  from  burning  trees  and  other  objects  to  the 
windward,  but  the  first  notice  they  had  of  it  was  a  whirl- 
wind of  flames,  in  great  clouds  from  above  the  tops  of 
trees,  which  fell  upon  and  enveloped  everything.  The 
atmosphere  seemed  one  of  fire.  The  poor  people  in- 
haled it,  or  the  intensely  hot  air,  and  fell  down  dead. 
This  is  verified  by  the  appearance  of  many  of  the  corpses. 
They  were  found  dead  in  the  roads  and  open  spaces 
where  there  were  no  visible  marks  of  the  fire  near  by, 
with  not  a  trace  of  burning  upon  their  bodies  or  clothing. 
At  the  Sugar  Bush,  which  is  an  extended  clearing,  in 
some  places  four  miles  in  width,  corpses  were  found  in 


MI8TEBI0U8  ORIGIN  OP  THE  FLAMES.  495 

tiio  o^n  road,  between  fences  which  were  onlv  diaUi 
burned.    No  mark  of  fire  was  unon  ihl     °°7,f ''K'*^ 

the  f«ot  that  so  maoT  wer«  Ml «/•  ^^P'*" 

They  «emed  to  h.7h^med  tolth.r"''^'  "'"'O'- 
that  were  regarded  .a  the  ll^tw "  ^om'S!""' 
trees  and  other  inflammable  material  VaZ.  T'H''8'' 

W.«.    ^%ere.ri'-    lat-L^--- 
The  scene  was  awful  beyond  description.     The  skv  «n 

l«ked  nothing  but  the  sonnS  th?L.^t!!f^  '""'.* 
indeed  the  approach  of  the  S  '^ri  '  ^'".r"'''"* 
monition,  from  tte  distanoe.tl^u:^"",;^"'*''' «  P"" 
appaUed  imaginings  of  the  people  '  ^  "" 

And  s  Uke  tale  is  (aid  of  Miohiean     A  1«™^  t     -l 

ZmTn  ,'T'"^  'orestsTereil^e^riT- 
OOOW  feet  of  Inmber  consumed.    Barns  horses  !!i 
cattle  were  swept  away  as  by  the  besom  rf  desrotTn 
In  one  day  fifteen  thousand  people  were  thro™  ton 
the  tender  mercies  of  poverty.  i-™  upon 

thft  OnW  *^i"^A^^  <="««■  "fire,  fire,-  from  the  fer- 
ltr«r'    ^^''''°"''''P-'^-»««''tful  ruins.    A 

"  It  is  impossible  to  conceive  of  another  such  scene  of 
overwhelmmgand  instantaneous  desolation.  WithX 
ttan  tl^  hours  a  district  of  two  square  mUe.  ^TAZ 
waste,  five  thousand  edifices  were  d^troyed,  and  Twenty 

ine  list  of  houses  destroyed  includes  seventeen  large 


lH! 


if! 


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THE  FOOT-PBINTS  07  SATAN. 


I HIIIIII 


government  offices,  sixty  temples;  two  "hundred  and 
eighty-seven  small  pubUe  offices,  and  four  thousand 
seven  hundred  and  fifty-three  private  dwellings,  shops, 
et^:.  With  all  its  frequent  devastations  by  fire,  plagues, 
and  earthquakes,  but  two  greater  public  calamities  have 
occurred  in  Yeddo  since  the  time  of  its  foundation." 

Since  writing  the  above  scarcely  a  week  has  passed 
without  the  announcement  of  terrific  fires  in  different 
parts  of  our  land.  "  Thirty-five  miles  of  forest  burning  in 
Pennsylvania — ^fearful  destruction  of  lumber  and  loss  of 
Ufe,  and  thousands  reduced  to  poverty."  From  Massa- 
chusetts, from  New  York,  New  Jersey,  Kentucl^,  Nebras- 
ka, Dakota,  Canada,  comes  the  same  sickening  tale  of 
woe.  The  rage  of  the  elements  is  let  loose  to  lay  waste 
and  destroy.    The  loss  by  fire  counts  up  by  miUious. 

And  not  the  less  fearful  is  the  outburst  of  human  de- 
pravity. Violence,  murder,  riots  and  political  thieving 
are  but  the  too  common  order  of  the  day.  We  had 
scarcely  recovered  from  the  dastardly  assassination  of 
the  Governor  General  of  India  when  the  telegraph 
announced  the  attempted  murder  of  the  Queen  of 
England. 

But  let  us  turn  again  to  the  great  city  now  in  ruins, 
and  who  can  tell  of  the  ravages  of  the  destroying  angel 
there?  The  region  devastated  was  five  square  miles, 
equal  to  all  of  New  York  which  Ues  between  the  Battery 
and  Union  Square  and  bounded  by  the  North  and  East 
rivers.  Twenty-five  thousand  houses  were  burned,  125,- 
000  persons  made  destitute,  and  more  than  a  thousand 
perished.  The  total  loss  of  property  is  estimated  as 
high  as  $300,000,000,  as  an  immediate  loss  to  the  citizens, 
to  say  nothing  of  the  derangement  of  business  and  the 
general  loss  of  property  throughout  the  country  in  con- 
sequence of  the  Chicago  disaster.  No  such  destruction 
-  of  property  was  ever  known  before  in  time  of  peace. 


BiOK  OF  Tm  WOOma  EX-EKEHT.  497 

financial  world.  oTtSs  c IpLlT"'"""*  ^^"'^  ^^  *« 
business  was  done.  «U  wLoh^  '  ""  '"°™'"^  "'''^i' 
The  same  Strang"  eScnr"'**^  "'""'»  °P- 
passed  in  the  oity  a'  on  the  p^ef  "'m ''"' ™f  "'- 
u«  element  reached  the  ri™7    n  "  ""^  ^«™"- 

would  be  stayed     Tef  Z  ?       •      ™PP°sed  its  ravages 

scorning  to  be  hedged  in  oa^M  f  ^^.^'^  "ood. 
scantlings  and  vaulted  ac^ss  S  "  *  ?^  "'  '"'''"« 
torches."  As  it  took  thrmain  wT  T*  "  *'"'"^"'» 
tempt  for  the  pnnTstrenMr*;?'  "  ""'""^  ''«  con- 
sloop  and  coSgTtoif;^ri  ''^--ga 
-ore  l.g,„d  flamS  mal^^eTtrt'  ''"^  '"*' 
leisurely  upon  the  bridges.  ''^        °^^    ^«^« 

"  It  now  made  quick  wort     n  ~  n 
FrauUin,  U  SaSe  SLi^J^T^^'^'^^^ 
Harrison,  Adams,  Van  Bureu^d  t        ""'""''■  '*'""' 
rate  of  a  block  a  minutf  °""*' "'  *^«  '«rrible 

wereplnnkingti:^^^  LrdTrrr"  "'  ™'" 
the  fire-fiend  once  more  stnTf„  *^  ""™  "™r 

with  one  savage  bZdt     '°' »  """"^^t  at  bay,  then. 

Here  also  it  .3.  ri»:::f''f '''^  "PP-""  "W 
suit  of  resistance.  It  let  Sh  I  ''"''*™''  *<"  ">«  »" 
river,  and  scattered  t^  *''"■*  '^'""  <">  &« 

'4t  r  ^ob -LKm^  Tdir  tf • 

ott^rnrSbit^r-  -4Xtt:- 


F  /  Ir 


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498 


THE    FOOT-FBDrrS  07  SATAN. 


I 


into  stables,  firing  trees,  dead  leaves,  sidewalks  and 
fences.  The  houses  that  burned  first  were  isolated  from 
each  other.  Fire  was  communicated  chiefly  by  flying 
brands. 

"The  dreadful  result  is  but  too  well  known.  Five 
square  miles  of  the  city,  including  near  a  hundred  peri- 
odicals, a  score  of  banks,  half  a  hundred  of  hotels, 
schools,  churches,  and  two  thirds  of  the  wealth  of  the 
city,  utterly  perished." 

Another  eye-witness  of  the  fearful  scene  says,  "  The 
flames,  like  some  gigantic  monster  reaching  out  its  ter- 
rible arms  to  grasp  its  helpless  prey,  stretched  across  the 
river,  caught  in  the  piles  of  lumber,  and,  as  if  in  furious 
anger  at  the  slight  check  which  the  river  gave  to  its  de- 
vastating march,  it  rushed  in  demoniac  fury  upon  the 
densely  populated  district  of  the  low  frame  tenement 
houses,  known  as  *  Conley's  Patch,'  (the  *  Five  Points ' 
of  Chicago)  devouring  it  as  some  hungry  beast  might 
swallow  up  its  captured  prey. 

"  And  now,  as  if  growing  strong  and  furious,  as  if 
gaining  power  and  madness  by  what  it  had  already  fed 
upon,  it  bounded  upon  the  magnificent  stone  fronts  at 
the  corner  of  Monroe  and  La  Salle  streets,  and  soon  the 
work  of  years — the  pride  of  the  city,  the  admiration  of 
all  spectators,  the  glorious,  elegant  monuments  of  ener- 
gy and  industry  fell  a  victim  to  the  destroyer.  It  was 
awfully  grand !  The  flames  leaping  up  into  the  heavens, 
now  breaking  and  rolling  away  in  the  clouds  of  smoke, 
only  to  be  followed  by  another  and  another  burst  of 
flames  still  higher  yet,  till  it  seemed  as  though  they  were 
reaching  out  to  meet  the  very  dome  of  the  heavens  above. 
Dense  clouds  and  volumes  of  smoke,  now  black  as  mid- 
night darkness,  beset  with  sparks  and  burning  branches, 
now  lighted  up  by  the  leaping  flames  of  fire.  The  wind, 
in  devilish  league  with  the  fiery  element,  howled  and 


AWFDL  PHENOMBNA.  '  ^gg 

whistled,  and  madly  whirlfl*!  «i^      x.. 

Above  aU  was  fte  deafening  rolof  ft„7  **?  "f^^^- 
toual  orashinK  o(  fall,„„  f.  ,*""  ™e  &«.  and  the  oon- 
Satanio  majest  h/j  ^^'f  ^^  '"Jhl  Ah,  th, 
overthe.pJallLgs^f^-8^*  ^-"gl.  m  fiendish 'gle: 

bJuftr^t^'r.™  T^  r^-^-J  »'  «>e  be- 

heE  Pieces  of  siding  Zetorr*"?"  ^  brands  of 
ciously  together  as  UbyZ^T^  t'f  *'""«'  ""P"' 
flung  out  lighted  UDon  «,«T  •  ^  °'  destruction,  tten 
flaming  Idt^.  bZC^*^^  ""I'^'^"  "K  lilce 
lite  rockets  and  feUfa^ofJ'*^-'"™*'^  '»««  went  up 
or  three  blocks  d™      ^  "  """«  '"^«  J^ds  two 

".dtit:  p^K^artrt  ^'^r  ^ '  «'^  -> 

-death  behkd  them  andltes^J^r^  "^"^  **  »"«»'» 
with  young  babes  in  th«^^  .  J°^  *^°'»'  ""U'ers 

childincllgingtothet  Lr-  """J^'""  h»tt-i'essed 
through  the^ th™nr»d^at7'"''™^6fr«.tioally 

whither,  only  away  frZ  i?«  ^""f;  ^^^  ^'"'  -o* 

for  -thers,'n,othe^,tSnXS;Sy  forifr"'''^ 
persons,  too  weak  to  walk  or  T  -f  '^*^' «'«* 
weak  voices  not  to  be?b»nr  Z.  "*."P'  ^P'»™g  » 
men  with  loads  of  hLseh„u  °1  ^  f'  '*""''«  "J^"*  i 
that  even  their  ftou^S  of  ^'' '''"^ '^'^  »''<'wed 

their  minds  with  anxious  W-^    """'"^  '^*«'  «"«d 

BtaM  l"r^,f  and'P"^"  "'  «>«  ^"""--t 
heaven's  judgment  in?871      ,.?'''."'"  ""^«"'1«  of 

-erica/,  dejir^.lr  ^  ^^-om^™. 


600 


THE  FOOT-PBZNTS  OF  SATAN. 


till  the  "  city  was  desolated,  and  fields  and  cemeteries  and 
gardens  were  filled  with  the  loathsome  corpses  of  the 
ilain." 

And  while  the  dread  messenger  was  yet-  speaking 
there  came  another  who  told  of  the  ravages  of  that  dead- 
ly famine  in  Persia.  Gaunt  hunger  had  enacted  scenes 
of  misery  there  such  as  has  seldom  been  the  lot  of  any 
people  to  suffer.  The  homes  of  the  living  were  left  deso- 
late, while  the  cemeteries,  the  cities  of  the  dead,  were 
crowded  with  victims  of  the  dreadful  scourge.  And 
while  this  messenger  was  yet  speaking  there  came 
another  that  told  of  earthquakes  in  diverse  places.  In 
the  Philippine  Isles  (like  as  in  other  places)  the  firm  earth 
reeled  to  and  fro  like  a  drunken  man,  and  the  foun- 
dations seemed  to  be  dissolved.  Houses  toppled  down 
at  a  crash,  and  many  were  buried  in  their  ruins.  Deso- 
lation now  reigned  where  but  a  few  months  ago  a  happy 
people  pursued  their  avocations  without  fear  of  danger. 

And  while  the  earth  yet  shook  and  gave  forth  ominous 
sounds,  the  fiend  of  war  was  loosed  in  Europe.  And  not 
enough  that  France  should  be  devastated  by  the  German 
war,  but  a  deadly  civil  strife  followed,  whose  horrors  far 
outstripped  the  devastations  of  her  foreign  foe.  All 
nations  stood  aghast  at  the  outrages,  the  inhumanities  of 
this  war.  Most  unmistakably  do  we  detect  in  these  the 
foot-prints  of  the  arch  demon  of  the  Pit.  And  then,  as 
if  in  awful  mockery  of  all  these  dire  calamities,  fbllowed 
the  dreadful  conflagration  to  which  we  have  referred. 

But  we  shall  not  attempt  to  enumerate  the  disasters  of 
this  eventful  year  :  floods,  earthquakes,  disasters  at  sea, 
railroad  slaughters.  A  flood  in  Jonapoor,  India,  inund- 
ated the  streets,  demolished  three  thousand  houses, 
destroyed  temples,  markets,  post-offices  and  mission 
schools,  and  made  ten  thousand  people  homeless. 

Indeed,    from  all  parts  of   the  world  come  tidings 


^  ^BDENEB  ELEMENTS  I^OSEB.  fiQl 

of  the  destruction  of  life  a«^ 
earttiqnakes,  floods  and  Ls  L^?'°P^'*^.  ^^  winds, 
storm  and  shipwreck.  In  XLT^  ''''^  P«««lence 
of  which  we  have  spoken  ar?.'J^!  ^^""'"^  ^^  Aoods 
by  a  tidal  wave  of 'tt  1"  d^T^bl  I^'T  °^«^°-^ 
square  miles  of  territory  and  JI?  ^  ^JPl^oon,  20,000 
tiiousand  persons.  ^'  ^^  *°  ^*^«  ^^^P*  away  tiree 

The  disasters  at  sea  havA  K/» 
year  ever  witnessed  before.  Wm!Ll"*  k  P""''*P'  ""> 
ed  by  the  thousand  nroMrt,  i  .  ,.  *™  '''^''  "nmber- 
l^te  disaster  in  t'T^  ^  ^/  ^  "OHon.  The 
example.  B,  »  single  storn.  fk^  ?  °'  '"'  "PPaDing 
forty  whalers,  were^t^^  ^""1?"'°'  ""««*<>' 
liie  of  trade.  New^Zrf*  f"^  Wow  to  &«* 
dollars.  "**""^  "Jone  lost  a  million  of 

reotdrthT::rS;trf"^~^--the 

"  Yesterday  a  lohg  re^rf  i^?    "?  ''»<»»<"Pl>e : 
•nent  was  broken!  TS^  ^t  "^P^dent  manage. 
«eeds  .„ytu„g  Lown  to^^^''°»«  -""gnitude  far  L 

At  twent;-five\inurs^troM°VT'  ""^"^O"- 
Westfield  was  laden  Witt  ^!r«-'°^^  ***  steamboat 
?'  -me  800  excnr^oS  tho'^^,^""-*^  "'-d 
joy  in  anticipation  a  DleMnlT    n     ^^^  ""K""  *«  en- 

Within  less^han  fi^  ^rtT^.r'"^.*'"'  "P^^'^''^ 
these  happy hoKdav!  T  ***■■■  *■""■*  *  foorUi  of 

bruised  by  falling  SnS^  »|?'f  .^  "^  »'-«.  and 
the  feriy-boat  whieTi  «  fe       •     .  forward  deck  of 

«»  safel  .«ad  on  as  tteT"^  ''*'"  ^""^  «»«»'«' 
opened  mider  the  fL  of  i?«         "*"  '*'**'  ''»*  ^^-J^Ij 

-0  sights  whL  'r  t^t  s'Xtr  7''  """"-^ 
given  place  to  a  «l,or.Ji        ^'"^^^  "^m  reahzmg,  had 

scalded  and'°sh\t.^?ru:r,^rrj°"  -" 

of  that  fatal  five  minutes  a  badlytlied^jlVH:! 


,!f 


Irif 


«) 


I    i 


502 


TEE    FOQT-PBIMTS  OF  SATAN. 


fective  plate,  something  unknown,  and  destined  perhaps 
to  remain  forever  unknown,  converted  the  boiler  into  an 
instrument  of  the  most  fearful  destruction,  and  made  the 
expansiveness  of  the  vapor  which  it  contained,  the  cause 
of  ruin,  agony  and  sudden  death."> 

Nor  can  we  recall  a  year  so  awfully  signalized  by 
manslaughters,  murders  and  suicides,  to  say  nothing  of 
railroad  slaughters.  Bead  the  record  of  a  single  day,  and 
that  too  the  death-knell  of  a  single  journal. 

"  Miss  Emily  A.  Post  died  from  the  treatment  she  re- 
ceived from  Dr.  Perry  and  Mrs.  Buskirk."  Ah,  what  a 
sad  tale  is  here  told,  and  but  the  repetition  of  many  and 
many  a  like  tragedy.  And  here  who  does  not  call  up  a 
sad  remembrance  of  the  beautiful  Alice  Augusta  Bowlsby, 
and  of  others  who  gface  or  disgrace  the  annals  of  the 
past. 

Who  can  read  these  sickening  records  and  not  discern 
the  handiwork  of  man's  inveterate  foe  ?  Sad  memorials 
those  of  what  sin  and  Satan  can  do  with  a  world  that  was 
once  Eden,  and  which,  by  the  regenerating  power  of  One 
stronger  than  he,  shall  become  more  than  an  Eden. 

Here  we  leave  his  Satanic  Majesty  for  the  present, 
still  at  work,  and  ever  at  work,  and  never  more  busily, 
energetically,  stealthily  and  determinedly  than  at  the 
present  writing,  and  all  this  because  he  knows  his  time  is 
short 


XXI\r. 

™  ''TEVn?rvl^^"«^S  0^  THE 
i^J^VIL  m  NEW  YORK. 


THE  GREAT  ASSASSINATION-FISK,  STOKES    AMn 

^ERAT^THE  PROEANATIO;  OF  T^  T^ZT  '"'" 
ING    LIBRARIES -WAR     UPON'  ^  ^  '^         '     ''^^''' 

spiritknowsnorest  A«l  ^"*f^*«'  his  disquieted 
elth,  he  Cd  no  such  fliStm  ^  ^"' ^'^  ^  *^« 
Gotham.    All  is  moTi-n^  ^^^  *^  *^^«^  ^  oW 

stratagems,  machinations  are  HaJI^T    ^  P^°*^' 

redoubled  craft  and  y^'e'ce  ^"^.'^^/'l  «^«««*ed  with 

citj  of  New  York  L  ^  l^r  f^S  lut  TT'  ^"  *^^ 
tanic  triumoh  not  tAl     •  T,    ^       ^  ^llsatale  of  Sa- 

^,61%  m.,  861  killed  bj  accident-105  suicides-lOe 


/'I 


A    i  i 


504 


THE  POOT-PRINTS  OP  SATAN. 


dead  bodies  of  infants  found — 179  dead  bodies  found  in 
the  rivers  around  the  oitj,  stabbed,  mutilated  and  othen- 
^vise  injured. 

The  new  year  commenced  with  a  tragedy  nearer  akin 
to  the  nether  world  than  anything  which  preceded  it. 
It  is  now  Devil  against  Devil — a  family  feud — two  pro- 
mising scions  playing  the  assassin  one  upon  the  other.  . 
Ic  a  freak  to  do  an  imusually  devUish  act  and  outdo  him- 
self, he  instigates  one  of  his  faithful  servants  to  become 
the  murderer  of  another  yet  more  faithful. 

The  late  sensation  in  New  York  (where  Satan's  seat  is) 
has  roused  us  to  a  fresh  conception  of  his  terrific  reign 
there.  But  if  Satan  be  divided  against  himself  how  shall 
he  stand?  "Every  kingdom  divided  against  itself  is 
brought  to  desolation."  Hence  a  gleam  of  hope  that  the 
colossal  Tammany  domination  is  undermined  and  must 
ere  long  come  to  grief.  The  diabolical  act  of  a  confeder- 
ate in  sin,  in  murderously  taking  the  life  of  James  Fisk, ' 
Jr.,  who  outraged  all  honesty  and  purity,  waged  a 
deadly  war  on  all  our  social  and  domestic  relations  and 
commercial  interests,  startled  the  whole  nation.  Confe- 
derates in  life,  they  will  not  be  long  separated  in  death — 
the  one  by  the  assassin's  revolver,  the  other  by  the  hang- 
man's rope — (if  there  be  any  majesty  in  law.) 

Whether  we  recall  the  relations  of  these  two  notorious 
actors  to  one  another,  or  their  unenviable  character 
and  position  in  society,  we  cannot  mistake  the  brand  of 
Cain  on  both.  James  Fisk,  Jr.,  wicked,  bold,  shameless, 
unscrupulous  in  all  the  ways  and  means  of  getting 
wealth,  and  that  even  without  a  blush  of  shame,  and  in- 
famous among  all  decent  people,  falls  a  victim  to  a  noto- 
rious rival  in  &aud  and  profligacy.  With  the  enteiprise 
of  a  burglar,  the  daring  of  a  pirate  and  the  desperation 
of  a  gambler,  Fisk  had  heaped  up  riches  Wealth  had 
given  him  power,  and  such  was  the  exercise  of  that 


1  mBPDL  ramiiBtiTioN.  jq- 

power,  that  Bench   B»r  «nj  t     •  ■ 

"ubjeot  to  his  control     "  A^i     *^'''"""'  ""«  «*  "mes 

boats  and  theatresland  ot^^       ' °J l'^""^*- "^^ 

%«te    debauchee,  Zlnl  '^Z^f  r"^  """■•  "  P"" 

wealth  and  lu^y  deS  ^bll'"^^"™'   '''"•'onest 

every  scene  of  shame    h!  W        P""""'  ""^  '»'  ^ 

femous  »  in  the  eyes  7'JL^\T  ■  ""^"""^  "^  i- 

"  We  regard  JiL  Ffak  Jr  °        ^'""'''  "■»■ 
pestUence  while  he  lived  hi'^  r^uT*"' "»»  »  """W-g 
fal  murderer  as  a  feS  retlh^l     ""^  """  '"'■"»  »«  »  "i"- 

igate  the  abhorrent  iitt^triir""'.'  """'  "^  '^^ 
every  upright  soul  "  B,  f  V  *  "«  *»  h«  awakened  in 
kind  heart  wZ'thJ3  !,T  """'  "P^^"-  ^e  had  T 
decency  and  pCety\ytl":l'^'''~''''»  ^aUy  instu 
and  in  the  P„fc?  Has  u,e  VkT''?^  °°  '^«  '^--e  . 
frauder,  the  repudiater  of  l1  h  ""^'"'"'  «"«  de- 

fail,  a  kind  heart  ?  But  IT."'  ''^"'  ^^ely  to 
gains,  and  his  tawdry, how  Js-*^  Ws  iU-go^te„ 
his  life,  which  hetook  n^nZl .  ^T  """""ahty  of 
Witt  showing  off  his  iU.2£?J  '  ufr^-    Not  content 

»  the  face  of  the  comnSr^t  ■ ''! '■'""'^"'^  ™« 
public  opinion  and  tt^^f  '  ^,  ^  ""*'  <«>'>'e"'Pt  for 
bution  thaThe  ctme  to  hJ""f ^^'^  ^-stance  of  «tri- 
je^ou^es  Of  hisSu'^e  tn^i  r.  «■«  '^^^^  -d 

boSb°  ■^.tjitid:  ""^  .*!'^  '-^  "^  -^^^  *^ 

tiere  is  i„  ZZbh^  .^•"'  *"'  P"*^*"?  »d  shame, 
-ation  of  hifca^et^"  "  tITS  S  "°r  °'  '^^  *«'-- 
wickedness."    "  Thus  far  silt    "  '^"'^  """^  ^  ^^ 
"Bloody  and  decdL  "!^^  ?°"  «"  ""* ''°  ^^er." 
dajs."  "^-Xhe  tSkefshXf^'f  °°'"™  out  half  tteir 
Suoh  a  career  if  it  end  ^-        ^  ^"^  °™  wickedness." 
sure  to  terSate  i^  flZ  "'.T''""'"'^  <>««*•  «P'etty 
«riliation.  ^^""^  disaster  and  person^  hu- 

Di^gnsting  as  such  a  career  must  ever  appear  to  aU 


606 


THE    700T-PBINT8  OF  SATAN. 


refleotiDg  people,  yet,  as  an  example  of  apparent  peonni* 
arj  suooess,  how  disastrous  is  its  infiaenoe  on  aspiring 
young  men.  He  was  enyied  by  thousands  who  saw  him 
apparently  prospering  in  his  wickedness  as  if  wealth  were 
eilone  the  road  to  distinction  and  honor.  While  in  the 
very  gush  of  a  life  of  unparalleled  fraud,  and  of  the  most 
shameless  dissipation  and  profligacy,  and  as  the  natural 
fruit  of  his  own  corrupt  life,  he  is  publicly  assassinated 
in  a  hotel,  by  a  friend,  an  associate  in  knavery  and  com- 
panion and  rival  in  profligacy.  The  murderer  of  Fisk 
was  a  wicked  man — a  befitting  agent  to  perpetrate  the 
foul  deed  confided  to  his  hands  by  their  common  master. 
He  had  a  wife  and  child  whopi  he  had  forsaken  to  pursue 
the  sh'my  footsteps  of  a  wicked  woman. 

We  shall  hazard  no  definite  speculation  here  on  the 
jpdicy  of  the  Devil  in  instigating  one  faithful  ally  to  the 
murder  of  another  yet  more  faithful.  Wise  as  the  Devil 
is  conceded  to  be,  he  has  been  known  before  to  make 
mistakes,  to  commit  blunders,  and  work  against  himself. 
The  act  itself  was  wort  -  its  original,  but  we  do  not 
quite  comprehend  its  poUoy.  Why  was  Fisk  stricken 
down  while  yet  in  the  very  zenith  of  his  strength  and 
glory  in  the  service  of  his  liege  lord  ?  In  vain  we  look 
aroimd  for  the  man,  who,  by  tact,  corruption,  satanic  sa- 
gacity and  unbounded  activity,  can  fill  the  place  of 
James  Fisk,  Jr.  The  leaders  of  Tammany  King  each  in 
his  own  sphere  has  rendered  invaluable  service  to  their 
master,  and  has  not  failed  of  a  "  Well  done,  good  and 
faithful  servant."  But  neither  of  these  could  make  a 
Fisk.  He  seemed  to  unite  in  one,  more  of  the  attributes 
of  his  master  than  any  mere  man  of  modem  days. 
Youth,  hope,  vigor,  great  acuteness  and  quickness  of  in- 
tellect on  his  side,  with  subtlety,  corruption  and  unbound- 
ed unscrupulousness,  James  Fisk,  Jr.,  stood  pre-eminent 
and  alone  in  a  choice  portion  of  his  master's  vine  ard 


DliVIL  AGAINST  DBVil.  ^ 

of  brotherhood,  hist  T  J^'d'  "f  **'  '^  """  '^™ 
!>«  sphere  %.!  to  the  ea^e  mX?    1  /'  u'"'  """'  *» 
master  suffer  such  damage  toTtfl   ,^^  """^  *^  "^» 
of  his  o™  household  "fc  fhe„  T^^, ""  "»»  ^"""'"m 
«o  subordkation  to  th.^  X"» '7^'^ '"  ««"  ki««. 
father  ?    Poerfbly  there  is  ZZ'  .K       ^'"""^  *»  «"" 

be  too  much  hke  the"  fe ler  ilXf tr""^l  ''"'^^ 
In  the  ease  in  question  a  litH.T  T  ''™  ""  i»n»ouy, 
'"Ptme,  a  ooridirietlof ;  ^f"  """'■  »  •"««  famif; 
man,  and  the  reydver  nZn  "l^""  "•""'^'"'^'l  "-^ 
Fraternal  regard  Tover^H "^  *^'  ^'  decision, 
g-ded.  n.utu°al  ^t^  ests^iX?'^!  7^  ''  *'«'- 
•""de™  brother.    It  i,  a"  hjp^  iS?''  "■"■ ""'«'« 

And  do  you  not  hear  thatS    t,^   f°  '°°™- 
The  hosts  of  heU  are  mo'ed     T.  '""'  ''*''«''«'• 

Tweed    weeps.    The  IZ,     I   ,?^»°"»''»y  «  in  tears, 
hundreds  ./thous»ds^J!f         ""'"'"■'d*'   «  "o'   *he 
homage  to  th?  rictl  of  ti»  ""T^"'^''  *°  P»^  "  A-'J       ' 
theooLternatioIfelUt  tW°™«  "^^  ^''  ''"'  '^^^fj"" 
seated  and  wide  sn^i.^        ^'"'"'  ''^  ""» 'o  the  deep 

Tet  James  KsiTtZo?  7  "'  ""^  ''"'"■"-y  ™'- 
tude  that  he  has  not^;.,^    u"° '"" ^'^  ^  moral  turpi- 

brillant  deeds  sl°,"  '^"P''"' '"  P«'P«''""«  hk 
the  perusal  Severvvo,,™'  "^  P"'^'^'''^  ""d  «P™  *» 
distinguish^'  :™1  ^°S°«,  2"  '"'»  'o-Jd  follow  in  his 

^ie  .ntenee.  the-opS:nTe;:;''-ur3tit 


ii 


508 


THE  F00T-PBINT8  OF  BATAN. 


man  in  the  land  :  "  It  is  a  worthless,  bttwdrj  biography 
of  a  worthless,  tawdry  rascal." 

But  we  may  not  loccdixe  these  fearful  eruptions  of 
satatiic  outbursts.  They  are  but  too  oharaoteristic  of  the 
wide-spread  worldliness,  greed  for  riches,  love  of  plea- 
sure, and  reign  of  fashion,  licentiousness  and  defiance  of 
law,  a  reckless  disregard  of  human  life,  and  loose  notions 
of  the  marriage  relations.  All  these  are  but  too  indicative 
of  the  ruhng  demon  of  the  land.  As  some  one  very  sig- 
nificantly asks :  What  is  the  soil  that  generates  such 
abnormal  growths  of  iniquity  ?  What  is  the  atmosphere 
that  nourishes  these  moral  monsters?  But  yesterday 
the  Tammany  Ring  and  the  Erie  Ring  dominated  city 
and  State,  and  openly  challenged  the  power  of  the  nation. 
They  had  friends,  parasities,  henchmen.  Tney  lived  in 
pleasure  and  wantoned  in  open,  shameless  vice.  They 
boasted  their  crimes,  and  made  a  merit  of  their  rascal- 
ities. And  while  setting  at  defiance  all  virtue  and  all 
law,  human  and  divine,  they  still  received  the  homage  of 
multitudes  who  regard  success,  however  gained,  as  the 
best  of  all  that  is  desirable  in  human  life  1 

With  all  our  detestation  of  the  outrages  perpetrated  by 
the  bad  men  whose  careers  we  have  now  in  view,  we 
cannot  blame  them  as  the  only  great  sinners  in  our  com- 
posite community.  They  were  representative  men. 
They  exemplified  in  their  conduct  the  operation  of  senti- 
ments, opinions,  and  principles,  which  of  late  have  gain- 
ed an  alarming  ascendency,  and  unless  that  ascendency  be 
broken,  we  shall  continue  to  have  a  succession  of  men  in 
the  political  and  commercial  worlds  whose  art  will  be 
employed  in  prostituting  honor,  truth,  and  integrity  in 
the  dust. 

We  cannot  be  supposed  to  have  any  sympathy  for  the 
deed  of  murder.  Nor  is  there  a  well-balanced  mind  that 
dare  applaud  the  mean  and  cowardly  act  of  an  assassin. 


llfi 


SABBATH  DE8E0RATION. 


an  assassin. 


—  609 

And  jjet  the  tracio  t&ta  f>,«*  • 

overtaken  theS   bid  '^^^^^^^^^^^  has 

fraud  against  the  riLhts  Jd  iTf        .^  "^^^^  *  ^««g"e  ol 

how  true  it  ia  thaf  the^oLf  °'  *^«  P-^lio,  proves 

net.  and  provide  methods  ^  1"!  ^h"''  "  ^'^^^  «^^ 

Let  us  hope  that  this  W  ZZ       T  °^"  ^'^^»^«»- 

abyss  will  enable  manV  hithe^t -'"r^  ''^'''^^  °^  '^^ 

oertein  it  is  that  theTwho  »  «f  ^1^  *°  P"'°^^^«  ^^^ 

the  whirlwind."  ^  «°^  *<>  *he  wind  shall  reap 

With  colore  aU  our  own. 
And  in  the  field  of  destiny 
We  reap  as  we  have  sown,- 

from  heavea,  h«™g  the  key  of  tK  f  "'"""  ^°™ 
great  chain  in  his  hand.  andshaU  ll^  r'"*"  ?"  "">  » 
that  old  serpent,  which  is  fte  De"  U  and  «  T  "^  '"«''"' 
bmd  him  and  oast  him  bto  *I  "."i^"'"".  »nd  shaU 
Bhnt  him  np  and  set  a  se/„p„„'tL T"  7  P"'  "d 
down  in  the  earth,  seeking  wZm  h^:      i""  «"  "?  »"« 

We  will  trace  Us  fooTprinte  fl         ^  ^"°'""- 
lent  yet  more  subtle  attlrot  the  SaTbatT'- '°  ""  '^- 
mon  schools ;  in  his  dfl»i,.LT        f"^"^*^-  on  onr  corn- 
flagrant  sinsCronatfe^d     "^'^.r^"'  *''»"""" 
and  the  idea  that  Trime  tt  ^    *""''■"  ^^^iniam, 
»oral.    Mnch  thatT  rlL'^ns'*^"'''''  "™'"'' 
moral  retrogression     TiTn    -i  ?       ^'^'"'  ">  ''»* 
that  he  may  fhe^L  .T   FT  ^"^  *'™^  "f<>™er 
He  has  bec4>7es nelnf    r  '^.  '^""'^  "^  <"«  "f"™- 
ing  to  tie  Church  Zfl       '*""''  *"  ■"""««  P«'»«in- 
W  to  the™e'o?tid    """Ji"';'"'  °'^''  »■"»  »»"'» 

not  only  thatiriv  d^A'^K,''^"''"  »''  "'"»"'<»'- 
•^         "®  ""'  ^"P«  •"»  hhnd  votaries  to  the  peril 


# 


610 


THE    FOOT-PRINTS  OP  SATAN. 


of  iheir  own  souls,  bat  that  he  may  shut  oat  the  '^  poor 
to  whom  the  gospel  is  preached." 

But  what  attracts  oar  more  especial  attention  just  &t 
the  present  moment  is  the  late  assault  on  the  Sabbath,  in 
the  form  of  opening  public  libraries  and  art  galleries  on 
Sunday.  This  recent  invasion  on  the  sanctity  of  the 
Lord's  day  claims  for  itself  certain  specious  apologies— 
yet  the  more  plausible  and  subtle  the  more  dangerous. 
It  may  be  it  will  ever  and  anon  reclaim  a  stray  young 
man  from  the  more  flagrant  Sabbath  desecration,  and 
gather  him  into  the  library,  the  Academy  of  Design,  or  the 
common  art  gallery,  and  make  him  a  more  specious  ti'rius- 
gressor.  But  wiU  it  not  draw  five  to  one  from  the  church 
and  Sabbath  school  ?  There  are  a  plenty  of  the  latter 
who  only  want  the  sanction  of  the  pulpit  and  the  press, 
or  rather  of  public  sentiment,  and  they  would  be  very 
ready  to  exchange  the  sober  realities  of  the  sanctuary  for 
the  freedom  of  the  library  or  the  excitement  of  the  art 
gallery. 

And  if  the  library  be  open,  then  (as  a  large  class  of 
moralists  will  demand)  why  not  the  picture  gallery,  the 
concert  hall,  the  opera-house  and  the  theatre?  And  how 
short  and  easy  would  be  the  transition,  and  plausible  the 
demand  that  the  dance-house  and  the  race  course  should 
have  conceded  to  them  the  same  freedom.  All  are  places 
of  amusement — and  some  say  of  inatrudion,  France  has 
tried  it,  and  we  have  no  doubtful  evidence  of  the  result. 
In  Paris  the  experiment  had  the  freest  play  under  the 
second  empise.  To  please  the  masses,  all  the  picture 
galleries  were  thrown  open  on  Sunday,  and  so  were  the 
theatres  and  other  places  of  amusement.  In  due  time, 
and  as  a  natural  sequence,  "  the  excitement  of  the  turf," 
and  civil  elections  came  to  be  added  to  the  routine  of  the 
day,  which  by  this  time  had  become  little  else  than  a  day 
of  recreation  and  sensual  indulgence.    But  what  a  finale  I 


at  the  '^  poor 

ntion  just  at 
&  Sabbath,  in 
t  galleries  on 
>nctity  of  the 
B  apologies — 
:e  dangerous. 
i  stray  young 
ecration,  and 
Design,  or  the 
>ecious  ti'rins- 
m  the  church 
of  the  latter 
Qd  the  press, 
ould  be  very 
sanctuary  for 
at  of  the  art 

arge  class  of 
gallery,  the 
)?  And  how 
plausible  the 
course  should 
yi  are  places 
France  has 
if  the  result. 
y  under  the 
.  the  picture 
so  were  the 
In  due  time, 
of  the  turf," 
outine  of  the 
e  than  a  day 
^hat  a  finale ! 


THB  EXPERIMENT  IN  KUNCE.  gjj 

Heaven's  indignation  Slumbered  not     Th«     r- 
timent  was  eaten  out  of  the  i!l  i      i.  ^  '«%ou8  sen- 

prey  tothe«sevenwort!;i,Kl^^^^         ''  ''''  * 
It  swept  and  garnished  "  **  ""^"^^  ^^^  «  found 

.    ^  ^^  *1^«  tind  of  history  we  would  W 

m  our  country?    We  hs^J  ^*^®  '®Peat  itself 

government,  as  a  "rieht"  «."  ^°'"'«"'™i°ipal 
HaU,  the  0%  courts  and  otte  DnWiTS. "'  ""^  «% 
day,  for  what  they  caU  "  Cll^j!!''^  -  S- 

"-o^oL^trr"-"  ^^^-J-SeTo' 

ba.  necessitates  tleuCofrnT  "i'  ^''""'  """""'""J. 
be  glad  to  respect  the  a^^bath  T."^"  ™='"  ""'"'"'«> 
librarians,  ticket  Cnte  an^i.  f'^'^  ™'' be  janitors, 
<iifferent  grades.  Td  wwtr^r"  ^^^'^■"^  of 
bricks  on  the  Sabbaaor^rVh-  *"  *«•'  '»  % 
And  near  aHn  t^  LX'^e^''^:  "  «""«  *"«  P^f 
oonntry  and  their  coZ^w  TJ""""*  *"'»  ^e 

ments.  One  may  as  3!\  ""'^  """*  »""««- 
Artemas  WarS^X  a  jf  ^^"^  °™'  ^o"  Q-i^o^  or 
library.  '  "  "  P'«**""  g«»«.  as  in  the   pubUc 

offtet^mtf-TXtt  "P"!-'''"""""^  --'^ 
Sabbath.    And cZnl  V   TuT'  ""«  ^'^""^  'dea  of  tS 

Tie  ignorant  Tmrhrt"  ^'t.'""'  ^'g^'floonce. 
foreign  despotisrto°SuMcr'^^  ""'."''  '"''J^«'^  <" 


i 


'  'i' '  i;  i 


512 


THE  FOOT-PMNTS  OF  SATAN. 


-44- 


to  a  day  of  pleasure  and  amusement,  we  may  despair  of 
heaven's  favor  upon  us,  as  a  free,  Christian  people.  Noth- 
ing so  surely  entails  upon  a  nation  the  malediction  of 
heaven  as  the  desecration  of  the  Sabbath. 

Again,  it  is  a  favorite  device  of  Satan  to  gild  over  sin- 
to  take  away  its  deformity  and  make  it  fashimaUe.  If 
men  and  women  in  high  hfe  desecrate  the  Sabbath— if 
magistrates  and  men  of  high  social  position,  and  perhaps 
members  of  the  Church,  will  defraud  and  embezzle  and 
betoay  a  sacred  trust,  how  is  the  pubhc  conscience  demo- 
ralized, and  the  standard  of  virtue  and  common  honesty 
prostrate  in  the  dust  I  Of  this  we  have  had  no  doubtful 
proof  in  our  own  recent  history.  The  gigantic  frauds 
and  embezzlements  in  high  places  in  our  great  metropolis 
made  rascalities,  which- were  once*  looked  upon  as  dis- 
graceful and  scandalous,  popular  in  all  our  great  cities 
and  throughout  the  land.  And  so  of  other  sins,  even  of 
those  of  the  most  flagrant  type.  Fashion  divests  them  of 
deformity  and  even  makes  them  fascinating. 

Ard  a  yet  bolder  attempt  is  made  to  screen  sins  the 
most  enormous,  and  crimes  the  most  heinous,  from  all 
guilt.  It  is  the  modem  device  of  treating  crime  as  insan- 
ity. Some  of  the  most  daring  crimes  and  outrageous 
violations  of  all  right  and  justice,  have  failed  of  their  retri- 
bution on  this  very  plea.  What  think  we  of  law,  of 
courts  and  judges,  who  thus  prostrate  all  law  and  all 
justice  ?  Let  this  idea  once  prevail  and  no  crime  need 
fear  punishment,  no  transgression  a  penalty.  Our  jails, 
prisons,  and  penitentiaries  would  at  once  pour  out  on  a 
defenceless  community,  hordes  of  thieves,  robbers,  mur- 
derers, the  vilest  of  the  vile.  For  cunning  craftiness  we 
know  not  a  more  hellish  device  than  this.  It  is  hcense 
unrestrained  for  every  crime.    What  next  ? 

When  contemplating,  as  we  have  done,  the  ruins  of  sin 
and  the  riotings  of  Satan,  we  are  led  to  exclaim,  "  How 


*^i 


HOrai  OF  DEUVEBiNOE. 


long.  O  Lord,  how  Inn,,)"    t  ^^ 

SI.aU  tho  noble  orrteTmJ^'  f'-  *''«  ""^  '»"«*? 
made  but  a  little  loC'^^,^^^ '"  <*'«'''  o™  image 
the  merest  wreck  otul  mT}"  '"f*'  *<""»  "^S 
«^.  ae  dupe  of  the  De^^^  £  r*"^  .^""J-'-"  o1 
groan  and  travaU  in  „„;:  ,  '^'"^  ^e  whole  creation 
«^8s.  W»  already  We  stT  ^.'  '^'^  ^eC 
hght  are  ateady  seen  Whfd    f  "J""^'    <*'»»""=  <>' 

MosesTofsIJ^,'Vo^~F?r'  ^  *"  "'"y^"' 

OTOar,  of  the  great  Napoleon- 

thinfa  fa^er  Zn  7d  P^o  ^'  r""*' """"t,.  Carlyle 
my;  the  'Autocrat •  here" TthSt^-J^"'  theAcade- 
Tusculanun.  rilla.  agh3ch^l  ™  """"  "™'»  ™  h« 
t.es  once  were.  Boofa  a^^^or^  ""^  ^^"^  »"'«™i- 
were  reeds  in  the  Nile  (J^  numerous  now  than 

ment,  subsequently  to^E^?^"V^'  ''"P^  »*  P^reh- 
i-.  ^trangelppli^;:  t^Z  utrf"^'  *'^™- 
venfaons.  appliances,  tUl  yo„  wo 'IT  .  discoveries,  in- 
".eoiyecturingwhat  is  tote  Tot;°t;' '?'"  ■''  •"" 

f*  upon  us.    Violence  i«  !!!;  ^''^/^^^^  peace,  they 


n 


514 


THE  FOOT-PRINTS  OP  SATAN. 


>'tmi 


m 

tEaij 


I 


market  and  the  stock  market,  bribery — ^tbese  are  rjome  <^ 
the  names  and  the  things. 

"  in.  The  times  are  times  of  extravagance  and  indul- 
gence. Families  lose  fibre  and  strength^  many  a  son  and 
daughter  are  rained.  Then,  fair  women  sweep  the  dirty 
pavement  with  their  rich  dresses,  a  thing  they  do  not 
dream  of  doing  in  the  birthplace  of  the  fashions. 

"  rV.  The  times  are  times  of  religious  daring  and  infi- 
delity. People  at  large,  children,  young  men  and  maid- 
ens, have  learned  to  handle  sacred  things  very  roughly. 
Boys  and  girls  settle  and  unsettle  ministers.  It  is  the 
:•  mbition  of  many  a  German  scholar  to  crowd  into  exis- 
tence one  more  new  scheme  of  interpretation  of  Scrip- 
ture, or  a  readjustment  of  a  particular  book  of  Scrip- 
ture, not  unlikely  to  force  forward  a  notion  whose 
startling  merit  it  is  that  it  cannot  possibly  be  true. 
A.t  times  the  preacher,  so  called,  is  an  infidel  man 
clearly,  and  verily  "  takes  the  stump."  Infidelity  is 
thrust  in  your  face  as  the  authorized  gospel. 

**  V.  The  times  are  times  of  great  improvement  and  gain 
to  religion.  Consistently  with  all  that  has  gone  before, 
I  believe  that  the  world  is  a  better  world  at  this  moment 
than  when  the  sun  came  up  this  morning.  A  quicker  un- 
derstanding of  these  bad  things,  our  being  all  aliv*^  to 
them  is  proof  of  progress.  The  light  it  is  that  makes  us 
to  know  the  darkness.  Mighty  forces  are  lodged  with 
the  Churches  of  Christ,  and  are  at  work.  A  kingdom 
there  is  that  is  to  dominate.  Collateral  helps  are  all 
abroad,  and  the  great  currents  of  uuuian  destiny  do  set  in 
the  right  direction,  but  under  God  the  gold  in  CaUfornia 
and  diamonds  in  Africa ;  cotton  in  one  country  and  the 
spinning  power  in  another ;  steam  on  their  on  track  and 
on  the  track  of  ocean  and  river ;  electric  wires  over  the 
land  and  under  the  depths  of  the  sea ;  rumors  of  war  and 
very  battles ;  pestilence  in  Persia  and  tornadoes  of  fire  in 


TBE 


are  r>ome  6f 


aoOD  TIME  OOJHNO. 


1       .  -  515 

Am«noa;MormoiugmMdMoh«mm„^     • 
from  old  China  and  old  JanTn  »„T,,  ?T"" '  embassies 
in  this  newest  land    "tbe^Z'^v3,u^  ^-^  "'  OW-^e 
*he  »^  fambilit/<^f  th^Pol^^^et  °'  '\^'^"  '"^ 
missionary  and  the  staying  Tw!  *??,f  "'""'^  »'  *« 
-all  hasten  the  day  oSe^l^ra^j  ^;  -«»thrope 
can  now  forecast  how  the  glad  eZ  °'  "'*»7:    W» 
green  and  sunshine  beantv  Jl  v       "  <»  "««  in  her 
^e  did  not  so  oerta^;tis:  .'""Tt"  *"  ^  ^°''''  ^ 
blackened,  uninhabitable  CsThf;"  ''f^- "»'«'7. 
not  yet,  0  not  yet,  bnt  (b^Z:.   ,1  ^""^  °'  **«  ^d  is 
Tes,  the  time  o(  (he  end  sh^ll       ''"  '"^  *""  ■""»«•" 
tear  the  "  sound  of  a  g^i^^  '^.'^'^'-  ,^<^J  do  we 

"hosts  of  the  Philistines  ••Su?„  "  ™  *°  ™"«  ^e 
strongholds  are  undermined  h"™^  •' ''°°°'^''-  His 
must  end.  A  stronger  tt^'  he  i  ^^'"'  °''  *«  ^"^ 
overoome  him  and  Ike  a^v  1  .°°""''''  "*'">  *«" 
wherein  he  trusted^d  S   T  *"  *"  ''™" 

Bible,  a  free  pre^,Ctota:nd"rr*"  ^  °P- 
zations  of  eyenr  name  anTf  "fonnatory  organi- 

Christian  e™niSXf;th:i':rT  ?4  °^ 
tte  resources,  facilities  and  eleZTT^^^''^"^ 
furnished  by  our  modern  f.h!!r       "l""™'  P"8"ss 

cheering  assurance  °h7teaS&  "'f '""""^  '^  S^^^ 
Christ's  mission  on  earft        7'^«"'P'"'n  draweth  near. 

Be.il."    Conse;:enVfo'rro^;^-*'<>i^  works  of  th^ 
"i^^gels,  and  that  gr!:Cf;l'r::tt:a^ 


*  i  !l 


Vfl 


f»  I; 


516 


THE  FOOT-PRINTS    OP  SATAN. 


serpent,  called  the  Devil,  and  Satan.  He  was  oast  out 
into  the  earth  and  his  angels  were  cast  out  with  him." 
And  being  driven  out  and  exiled  from  heaven,  and  ban- 
ished to  this  planet,  we  call  earth,  he  took  possession, 
set  up  his  standard  and  became  (by  usurpation)  the  god 
of  this  world.  And  how  he  has  monopolized  and  subsi- 
dized to  his  vile  purposes  the  great  elements  of  power 
thfst  govern  the  world — wealth,  intellect,  education,  the 
press,  civil  governments  and  rehgion,  manners,  customs, 
habit  and  fashion — everything  which  controls  the  mind 
and  the  heart,  we  have  easayed  to  illustrate  in  the  pre- 
ceding pages. 

From  Adam  to  Christ  there  was  no  cessation  of  hosti- 
lities. So  universal  was  his  empire  that  his  dominion 
was  almost  undisputed.  On  the  advent  of  Christ,  the 
rightful  "  heir "  and  king,  though  he  knew  that  Christ 
had  "come  to  his  own,"  yet  he  met  him  (in  the  "  wilder- 
ness") and  boldly  claimed  as, his  own  "  all  the  kingdoms 
of  the  world,"  and  challenged  Christ's  allegiance,  as  if  by 
this  magnificent  bribe  he  might  retain  the  supremacy. 

But  here  he  received  the  "  deadly  wound."  From  this 
point  the  "  proud  waves  were  stayed,"  and  the  floods  of 
iniquity  which  he  had  rolled  over  the  world  began  to  be 
turned  back.  From  that  eventful  moment  when  Jesus 
said,  "  Get  thee  hence,  Satan,"  to  the  present  Hour,  his 
empire  on  the  earth  has  been  on  the  wane.  And  the 
"  sure  word  of  prophecy  "  for  it,  that  Christ  shall  ride 
forth  conquering  and  to  conquer,  till  he  shall  put  out  of 
the  way  and  forever  destroy  all  the  kingdoms  and  domi- 
nions, principalities  and  powers  of  Satau,  Every  ad- 
vancement of  the  kingdom  of  Christ,  every  inroad  of  the 
gospel  is  ft,  biire  prognostic  of  the  nr";  roaching  downfall 
of  earth's  great  adversary.  And  no  oise  can  contemplate 
the  progress  already  made  by  the  gos]  el,  the  facihtiea 
and  present  resources  of  the  Church   "or  a  yet  more 


^^^:,a: 


^  ws^iir  OF  XM  oHuaoH. 


speedy  progress,  and  nof  t.i.  ~'"  **' 

earth's  redempti'onu^::^  ^^^  oo««ge  ft^j  „.,  ^ 

Progress  of  science  and  &°L7T^  ""  **«  '*"«h.  the 
agencies  of  the  aggressiTO  S!  V  ^"^^  "«  *«  ready 
the  ends  of  the  eaT         '"'='~''»8ed  messengers  tj 

Were  the  master  now  tnvi-c,;*  I,- 
Jjot  ^  con,peUed,  as  of  oldrtot^P"";™'';-.  »e  would 
The  foxes  have  holes    and  ttTJK  ^  '"""entation  : 
»^t^  but  the  Son  of  miL  ^s  not  wh""'."^  *«  "''  ''"^e 
,       (Matt  viii..  20.)    Tentm^ta,1:i^^^'»VlUshead." 
er  the  bankers  of  Zion     To^.     ,  ^''^™en  are  no  long. 
a  thonsand  hills,  the  golden  h  J  *7'"^  *«  "atUe  up4 
fie  Ms.    She  has  also,t"  "Lr t        ".'"""<"'  '-"'^ 
imllB,  her  martet.pla,^es,  heTba^K  T'  ^'  *"?«'  J'* 
ttonsand  villages,  Swnsknd  cities     H^^res,  *"  *«» 
M^e  on  every  sea,  her  silts  IdtZ    ^l  '*"?'•  "^^^^e. 
atones  in  aU  the  ends  of  tte  ^    .t""*  S?"  ""^  P^eions 
"f-di-g  her  gifts.    Seba  and  shl    '    ^^'  '^'»'"J'  «« 
<Je:r  gold.    And  ^h.t^t^^^\"t/i'^^S  to  her 
f>e  sunple  fact  t.at  the  ZX  of  ol  •t"""^  "^^^-^ 
"nch  and  increased  in  go^dT"    Lt  '    "°  ''^<'°™"« 
Already  the  Master  is  adll.  ^^  ?°  ™''''  ""^take 
•»ilUon  of  his  earthlyleTj^f V?'f"«  •^<»'  "f"*' 
earthly  interests.    Z,  the Tf.      ^V'^herance  of  his 
will  accumnlate  iu  the  Cd^^'^JT''''- ""t  a  farthing 
»M  not  be  in  active  tilt  fn   .  '  T ™'"'    "hi^h 

But  "let  no  man  aZ-  ' '""  ^W- 

day  shaU  not  comee  tp  uir  '"  ""^  ™^-  '»  'hat 
and  that  man  ot  s^Z\t:Z°T ''''^  ""'^  ^- 
'hoopposethande^^ltethTrntttabn  "Z?l  P"'""'"'' 
Ood  or  that  is  worshipped  '«TW»T  '"  *?'  ''  ""^^d 
the  last  days  perUous  «C=  i,  i,  ^"^  "'^  that  in 
8hantrry4-4^atJrf !.''•*"  «»■"«."    '■Fie      j^^ 

thebejnningSe^^^lf''"'-.  ^"*  '1''-«  -'tot 

wona,  no,  nor  ever  shall  be." 


!  ■' 
I' 

fjij 

'I; 


'I  ^  I. 


ii  i. 


JW 


518 


THE  FOOT-PRINTS  OF  SATAN. 


As  the  field  narrows,  as  the  strongholds  of  Satan  are, 
one  after  another,  captured,  the  more  will  he  concentrate 
his  forces  and  the  hotter  will  be  the  uutA  battle.  The 
nearer  the  victory  the  more  desperate  the  onset  of  the 
foe.  When  the  armies  of  our  mediatorial  king  shall  put 
on  their  strength,  concentrate  their  forces  and  close  up 
their  ranks— when  the  king  himself  shall  gird  on  his 
sword,  ready  for  the  final  battle,  the  enemy  shall  be 
aroused  to  make  his  last  desperate  onslaught.  And  the 
more  desperate  his  condition  the  more  deadly  will  be  the 
fight. 

Pleasant  as  has  been  the  dream  that  the  sapping  and 
mining  process  of  the  gospel  shall  go  on,  undermining 
one  stronghold  after  another,  the  enemy  quietly  retiring 

and  yielding  a  peaceful  possession  to  the  invading  host 

that  the  glory  of  the  millennial  mom  will  gently  arise 
upon  the  "  sea  of  glass,"  spread  out  in  beautiful  contrast 
to  the  darkness,  the  storms  and  tempests  of  this  distorted 
earth,  yet  the  word  of  unerring  truth  teaches  us,  and  the 
well-known  character  and  antecedents  of  our  inveterate 
foe  admonishes  us  that  he  will  not  yield  the  final  posses- 
sion— even  the  forlorn  hope  of  all  further  empire,  without 
such  a  battle  as  he  never  fought  before.  The  JJevil  will 
die  hard. 

This  accords  with  the  teachings  of  the  inspired  word. 
Of  the  several  notices  of  the  great  and  final  battle  that 
shall  precede  the  ushering  va  of  the  millennial  glory  we 
need  refer  to  but  a  single  one.  It  is  denominated  the 
"slaying  of  the  witnesses."  Eev.  xi.  This  eventful  con- 
flict most  obviously  follows  the  great  success  of  the  gos- 
pel, which  heralds  the  no  distant  approach  of  the  millen- 
nium—the no  doubtful  conquest  of  the  world  for  Christ. 
"  When  they  shall  h^ye  finished  thdr  testimony,  the  beast 
that  ascendeth  out  of  the  bottomless  pit  shall  make  war 
against  them  and  kill  them."    The  overthrow  is  seeming- 


I. 


latan  are, 
Qoentrate 
tie.  The 
et  of  the 
shall  put 
close  up 
rd  on  his 
'  shall  be 
And  the 
'ill  be  the 

>ping  and 
lermining 
Y  retiring 
Qg  host — 
[itly  arise 
.  contrast 
distorted 
3,  and  the 
nveterate 
il  posses- 
3,  without 
Jevil  will 

red  word, 
attle  that 
glory  we 
lated  the 
itful  con- 
the  gos- 
le  millen- 
)r  Ohrist. 
the  beast 
make  war 
seeming- 


VIOTOBY  m  SEEMINQ  DEFEAT.  619 

triumph.  '^''''^"'^  P'^«*g«  of  a  final 

rrTLinlv^^'I  ??P°^  ""''^S^'  P^«d.  they 
were  suddenly  confronted  by  a  more  formidable  enemv 
ttan  ever  before.    Nothing  seemed  to  await  them  b^^ 

song,  sung  over  the  final  victory  of  the  OhnL  ^  .i, 

of  devJs  working  miracles  and  going  forth  to  the  ki^Zl 
Sitfr  hr'^  *°  """  """"'^  ^°'W  *°  Setter  themtothe 
seeming  and  temporary  triumph  of  the  enemy  and  the 

manuel,  the  angel  comes  down  with  the  key  of  the  bot 
tomless  pit  «,d  a  great  chain  in  his  hand/and  he  lat 
hold  on  the  ^agon,  that  old  serpent  which  is  the  De4 
and  Satan  and  casta  himinto  the  bottomlesspit  and  sete  a 
ae^i^on  him  that  he  should  deceive  the  nations"' ml 
And  here  we  leave  him. 


If  I 


THE   REMEDY. 


"THE  BESTITUnON  OP  ALL  THINGS " —TR.-3  CONQUEROR, 
AND  THE  PINAL  AND  COMPLETE  C0«QUL8T— THE  USURPER 
DEPOSED  AND  CAST  OUT  FOREVER — THE  EARTH  RENEWED 
— THJj  RUINS  OP  THE  FALL  REPAI  RED— EDEN  RESTORED 
— PiJlADISE  REGAINED  —  THE  UNIVERSAL  REIGN  OP 
BIGHTiilOUSNESS  AND  PEACE. 

"  Wliere  sin  ahounded,  grace  did  (or  sMl)  much  fnore 
abound;  thxd  as  sin  hath  reigned  unto  death,  even  so  might 
grace  reign  through  righteousness,  unto  eternal  life,  by  Jesus 
Christ  our  Lord"— Bern.  v.  20,  21. 

Having  disposed  of  the  Devil— at  least  for  a  thousand 
years,  the  query  very  naturally  arises,  what  next  ?  With 
the  great  deceiver,  corrupter  and  tempter  has  passed 
away  every  evil  humanity  is  heir  to,  intemperance,  fraud 
and  licentiousness,  violence,  murder,  suicide  and  war; 
the  perversion  of  money  and  mi:\d,  of  the  press  and  the 
tongue;  despotism,  oppression  and  the  direst  perversion 
of  every  good  thing. 

We  have  seen  what  our  enemy  hath  done— what  have 
been  the  sore  ravages  of  sin— how  it  has  "  abounded," 
how  reigned,  how  spread  its  desolation  everywhere— how 
it  has  assailed  the  throne  of  God,  raised  rebeUion  in 


THE  WORST  OP  siN. 

heaven,  cast  onf  n  »+v.'  i  ^^ 

It  laid  our  once  beautiful  ±1?.  "■""  *'  «'^»'  ^^^ 
;»ed  U^th  deforu.i.;':„VS'' :?•''*'''"'»».  "0- 
It  has  cast  hi,  dark  mant  e  oZl  th^f  "'""'  '"">  d«''«>. 
"oath  whose  siokty  shade  evelrsleL    V   r'<"^-  l^" 

It  has  la,d„,ui  in  ruins     Th!      [,  ""^  '"'°P«- 
body  ,s  marred,  deranged  d,»^      "    '"  "''"otur,.  of  his 
cess  and  disease,  the  dS„t 'ST";  »feobIedbyex! 
demohshod  by  death.    His  2. ,  ?   "'~'""5  »  &allT 
«o-pietely  abused  and  dZ.rS  "  d    ''°™'""''™  «  »» 
based  that  it  remains  but  Th!    >      '"  "''"'o-i  and  de- 
'-ek  of  its  onee  noble  ori^'i?  "t  A""  *^  -"'-"We 
■nation  ,s  stiU  more  distoS     T^    '"'  ■»""'  """for- 
stamped  on  man  his  own  tte     rr  ''''«  "'"'God 
features  that  he  bore  a  ul  ^      ^'  ""^  ">  his  moral 
■""'ed  had  he  becom:  L  ^^T /°  "»  God.    B^  so 
you  would  look  almost  Z2  tl  f  '  "'"'  *"  ""go'''  fet 
godhke  original.    Before  he  ».      Tl  "  ""'"""'"t  of  his 
beauty,  the  delight  of  Ca^d  "f'*^  '^"ne  in  mor^ 
i^oh  the    accused    thil  ^1    v  °°,*"°"  <«<»  he 
From  the  crown  of  his  h^d  W.      '  ,  «'°'7   <leparted. 
nothing  but  deformit/-"  „^o^ ''':  »?'?  °'  '"'  '«»'  -«» 
tfefying  sores."  '  "°™  »"d  bruises  and  pn. 

But  it  is  in  the  aonl   «i,    • 
•nade  his  sorest  ravages     y ''""'°'''"  «onl,  that  sin  has 
f     appaUing  faetX^  si!  !  "'"""'l  '""^  """^^  to  re^ 

-oi  oSy^ir^^tr-s."-  ^^«-  - 

"bounded  it  ZkSofdTat'r'"   ''-«—'> 
"■^to  deaU,.    It  h«,  J^^°l  death,  but  it  hati  r«>^ 

1  has  enslaved  the  ZZltT^'^.'^"''"'^  "'"P"-- 
ol  death,  and  then  commLioLlh  T'^'^  ^"'"  *^«  ^ar 
eoutethe  dread  mandir°°/    i    ,^"'^''^'««°™toex. 

No-  tas  the  reign  ofh^  .^^^ftdte  *'  '''"™-" 

^  Had  the  power  of  sin 


'  !' 


m 


THE    FOOT-PRINTS  OF  SATAN. 


n 


I' 


ceased  when  he  has  dissolved  man's  earthly  fabric.  His 
mightiest,  deadliest  triumphs  are  reheived  fur  the  disem- 
bodied spirit.  There  sin  shall  reigu  and  riot  forever. 
He  shall  oast  the  wretched  minions  of  his  power  into  the 
prison  of  everlasting  darkness  and  bind  them  in  chains  of 
eternal  fire. 

But  is  there  no  remedy  ?  Shall  not  this  inrolling  tide 
of  iniquity  be  turned  back  ?  Shall  sin  reign  and  riot  on 
human  happiness,  and  trample  down  the  noblest  part  of 
man,  and  none  be  found  to  rescue  the  prey  from  the 
power  of  the  destroyer?  Is  there  no  eye  to  pity,  no  arm 
that  can  bring  deliverance  ?  Sleeps  the  compassion  of 
heaven  ?  Slumbers  the  arm  of  omnipotence  ?  No  ;  tho 
lion  of  the  tribe  of  Judah  has  prevailed.  He  has  risen 
up  to  shake  terribly  the  eai'th.  The  prince  of  darkness 
trembles  on  his  throne.  His  empire  is  sapped  in  its 
foundations.  He  that  rideth  forth  King  of  kings  and  Lord 
of  lords,  conquering  and  to  conquer,  shall  put  down  the 
usurper,  restore  the  ruins  of  the  apostasy,  reinstate  the 
earth  and  man  in  all  their  primeval  beauty,  hoUness  and 
honor,  claim  his  purchased  inheritance,  and  reign  forever. 
And  then  shall  the  angels  sing  the  triumphal  song  of 
"Paiudise  regained." 

"  This  world,  over  which  Satan  has  lorded  it  so  long, 
and  which  for  ages  has  labored  under  the  primal  curse, 
shall  be  regenerated.  The  time  is  coming  when  the 
mark  of  the  beast  shall  nowhere  be  seen  in  aU  the  earth, 
when  the  trail  of  the  serpent  shall  nowhere  appear  in  all 
its  borders,  when  no  storm  shall  shake  its  bowers,  no 
earthquake,  disturb  its  repose,  no  blight  descend  on  its 
flowers,  and  when  the  sun  shall  look  down  with  smiles 
upon  the  fair  bosom  of  regenerated  nature.  Yes,  this 
sin-oursed  earth  shall  be  redeemed.  It  shall  be  dehvered 
from  the  dominion  of  evil ;  a  new  genesis  shall  overtako 
it,  it  shall  again  be  welcomed  into  the  brotherhood  of 


Kiji 


4ik  i'  h; 


THl  OBIEAT  DELIVEBjai. 


gaments  from  Bo^^'t"  *?»  Worn,  with  dyed 
P«6l,  travelling  inU.e  g  :«^^e»  Vl«''"""'^""""V 
•nswers:    "I  that  »p„!t*„  ™  "' '"»  «'™"8«hr    He 
-      .r«  "-".e  great  DehW    Buf '  r™""'  ""^'"^ '» 
tt'ne  apparel,  and  thy  gai-ment^  li     Y  ""^  "'°"  ">^  » 
eth  m  the  wine-preif^Whv'^"  ""'"  '"'"  «■«'  ''"-"l- 
"d  of  severe  toil  on  a  person  „f'*  T^   "'  Wood 
"Plies:    "I  have  trodJer.Z  ""'''^  ■»'»'"    He 

tte  people  there  was  none  Jth  IT^r  *"»'  ""d  <" 
m  njine  anger  and  tralfe  w''"  ^  "'"  ''»'"'  "«»» 
Wood  shall  be  sprinkled™  n,v  "^  ''^' '"«'  ""eir 

all  my  raiment."^  For  I™daTo?T""' '""  ^  "'^  *'- 
Leart,  and  the  year  of  my  rXn,M  ™''*'*'"^  "  '»  "r 
™th  a  holy  zeal  for  the  hon^of  ^^  f  ^..°°""-"    ^'""  '' 
Piness  of  man,  and  a  holvT,^^      .        *"  ""^  *«  iap-    * 
daring  attempts  of  Sa^  tl*&  "'  '"^^P--  «nd 
Satan  «ad  all  his  angels  and  s^^     ^  "^  ^'^^  «»ail«d 
and  treading  them  as  in  Te  „?„       "^  ""  "»  '">'"'«■"«, 
«a-ed  a  glorious  victory  otr  ^17  "'  '^"^'^  ""* 
demption  for  man  '  ""*  bought  out  re- 

l-afwor 'Ltt^.f-  ,^a»7  a  glorions  victory 
ments  stained  with  blood^^^n" '**" '*''  »"'»  «ar^ 
quering  to  conquer.  He  will  ■"  ^"""^  °"  *■<>">  "on- 
overturn  till  he  v.ho2  rilT"'? '"'?  °™''"''- »»" 
Thwis  terribly  expressed  if, I  'f  "'8"  shaU  come. 


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i.i 


prediction  of  the  final  and  complete  overthrow  of  sin,  and 
of  all  who  persevere  in  rebelUon  against  the  great  king. 

Yes,  blessed  be  God,  there  is  a  remedy !  There  is  a 
balm  in  Gilead,  there  is  a  physician — one  that  is  mighty 
to  save— the  great  Deliverer.  A  gratuitous  dehverance. 
All  progress  of  the  gospel,  all  success  of  every  species 
of  reform,  all  increase  of  light,  knowledge,, civilization 
and  civil  liberty  are  but  the  sure  triumphs  of  the  truth 
and  harbingers  of  the  good  time  coming,  prognostics  of 
the  approaching  end  of  Satan  and  his  reign  upon  the 
earth,  and  God  and  his  government  vindicated.  Christ 
comes  to  "  his  own,"  is  welcomed  by  his  people,  his  em- 
pire on  earth  is  established,  and  all  things,  physical,  so- 
cial, intellectual,  moral  and  religious,  are  reinstated  in 
their  beaaty,  utility  and  glory  as  they  came  from  the 
hand  of  the  perfect  architect. 

What,  then,  are  we  to  look  for  as  the  final  triumph  of, 
grace  through  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ  ? 

I.  The  first  essential  advance  towards  the  "restitu- 
tion "  in  question,  is  the  setting  right  of  an  apostate 
race  in  their  relatioti.  to  God  and  his  government.  '  Sin  is 
rebellion,  a  casting  off  of  God,  and  an  allegiance  to  the 
usurper.  The  mission  of  Christ  is  one  of  reconciliation, 
to  bring  men  back  to  their  rightful  Sovereign.  Sin  has 
ahenated  man  from  God,  put  enmity  between  Creator 
and  creature,  cut  off  communication  between  heaven  and 
earth,  and  unfitted  us  for  companionship  with  holy  be- 
ings. Grace  has  repaired  the  breach— has  brought  us 
into  covenant  with  God— makes  all  who  will  come  child- 
ren of  God,  yea,  heirs  of  God  to  an  immortal  inheritance 
— changes  our  relations  from  enemies  to  friends,  from 
aliens  and  rebels  to  son«  and  heirs.  It  brings  them  who 
were  afar  off  into  the  family  of  God  and  gives  them  man- 
sions in  their  Father's  house.  It  does  more  than  to 
effect  a  reconciliation  between  God  and  man.    It  gives 


THE  BESriTtmON. 


citizenship  i^  I,  *  525 

w nat  then  will  the  full  r^^ u„  ,.      ^- 

«»gela  as  well  as  of  jWren  ^T"'  *"  <"»»?»»«  o^ 
bamer-the  othorwis,  imprssl,  k^'*"'-  ^ie  grand 
«OTeryfro»  the  fall,  i,  comlff  '"'"■'''■  '°  »=''>'"e. 
again  dwell  with  mei     T„  ?if   '^'^  'O""™-!-    God  shSl 

^  alHts  prin.evalTetnt^VulTdVT'"^^- -'^^^^ 
bitetion  for  the  everla,ti„        ^,  "''  '"veliness.  a  fit  h„ 

"vojce  of  God  Shan  S?;tr'"" ,"'  «">  --'^  ^ 
1"»  %aUnd  loring  children'    ^  "  '°™S  '"'^er  with 

wo^:  tit  1  iri^^'^t  ^^\T'  "■■■^■-"---g 

ol  jature  the  Merest  ontlhes  of?     T^''  ""^  ™l™e 
»orks  of  God.    His  existed  "i^^  """"^""'^^  and  the 

godhead  islX  Tnt^rr  S  '''^  "^^Xt  t 
'aoe  of  Jesus  of  Nazareth  T?         ''  »"'>  'i-'ough  the 
fie.    And  only  ttS  a^'"'  ""''  "^"^  "'"'  '«  '"^ 
of  God  that  we  nndlSitr  ^r^  ^'^'^''^  «>«  ^alb 
'o  his  violated  law,  and  I^stTh      .  '''*'"'' '»  G°d  and 
God.     The  great  ^onderTtl^  "^  "'  "'  *"  ^'"■P^g 
and  perchance  of  the  nnTJse'  th      "^f*  ""  '"'^^i 
the  divine  justice  and  mircvl  1    T''™"^""'""  «' 
Jion  through  Jesus  ChrisT  Hn        't/"''  °f  redemp- 
h'«  awandjettreatasfiitle^I  T'^  <^°'>  ™*'=ate 
>«  ae  theme  of  wonder  pt^^fL'rr''"^'    ^"' 

.  praise  and  adoration  of  the 


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heavenly  hosts  throughout  eternity.  This  is  what  "  an- 
gels desire  to  look  into."  Hence  the  triumphal  song 
when  Christ  appeared  as  the  babe  of  Bethlehem.  It  was, 
"  Glory  to  God  in  the  highest,  and  on  earth  peace,  good 
will  toward  men." 

II.  What  this  great  renovation,  or  "  restitution  of  all 
things,"  shall  do  for  the  world.  We  have  seen  what  sin 
has  done — how  it  has  laid  the  world  in  ruins — covered  it 
with  thorns  and  briars — filled  it  with  violence,  fraud, 
malice,  murder  and  death,  and  made  it  the  abode  of 
wretchedness  and  woe.  It  has  fiUed  the  heart  of  man. 
with  every  furious  and  hurtful  passion,  and  turned  his 
hand  against  his  fellow  and  his  heart  against  his  God. 
It  has  closed  the  hands  of  charity,  dried  up  the  streams 
of  benevolence,  thwarted  the  kind  designs  of  philanthropy 
and  bound  the  world  in  the  frosty  chains  of  selfishness. 
Grace  enteis  as  the  great  regenerator — to  bring  back  the 
world  to  its  original  purity,  dignity  and  moral  rectitude, 
to  its  pristine  beauty  and  happiness.  Christ  comes  to 
eradicate  the  thorn  and  the  briar — to  speak  peace  to  the 
warring  elements  of  strife,  to  quell  the  voice  of  tumult, 
to  stay  the  hand  of  violence,  to  banish  every  corroding 
passion  from  the  human  breast,  to  bind  all  together  by 
the  ties  of  a  common  brotherhood,  and  to  evidence  to  all 
that  we  are  children  of  the  same  father,  heirs  of  the  same 
inheritance  and  expectants  of  the  same  glory.  Grace 
will  restore  all  that  sin  has  laken  away. 

And  what  signs  that  the  morning  cometh  have  we  in 
the  rapid  extension  of  the  gospd!  How  is  the  desert 
changed  into  the  fruitful  field  and  the  wilderness  into 
the  garden  of  the  Lord  !  The  withering  curse,  whether 
in  the  form  of  infidelity  or  idolatry,  licentiousness  or  in- 
temperance, has  spread,  like  a  pestiferous  sirocco,  till  it 
has  made  our  world  little  else  than  one  great,  moral 
desert.    The  gospel  standard  is  set  up  against  it.    Na- 


THE  DABK  DAT  IS  cOMINa  gij 

brought*ni.dOTThe''w^r  '^^^'^^  tiU  there  are 
-ost  ™%htened;fte  SnlT,,"'  *«  «-?«>  -^1  the 
refined  nations  of  the  earth  T^  /  ,"™'  "'"^^  »■"! 
that  remain  wedded  to  ttir  M„1 1^'"  *«  ^'«''"  Wb^' 
able  nation,  the  strength  'f  1  """■'  '«  »»  """sider- 
broken  and  the  vigorTw.         'v  °'"*'  ^^''  «  "ot 

doubtless   the  resiatl.«=  **  "'""e  this?    It  is 

It  is  the  stone  "Z^oTotT"'^'"^"'*'  "'  «■«  go'pd 

which,  having "  smo^  f^        '"™"""°  '^'^O"'  bands" 

ea*.    The  'cto^o  ^b fn^^T"  ?^"  '"'  *«  -^* 

anationandnaanyan  iZnd  rerflt"""  °™^  "*°^ 

reigned  without  a  rival     And     f       ^  ^""^  ^«°  Satan 

present  prognostics,  the  daT^s  n^f  IT^  ''"''8''  '■•<"» 

»mphs  of  grace  shaU  be  cole  "f       .T'  ^'■™  «>«  «- 

B"t"let  no  man  deceh,r  T '""'■"^«™rtb. 
day  shall  not  come  ezcepuLr  ^^  ™^  "«''™-  ^^  ^at 
and  that  man  of  sin  ^  1™^^^  "'"«  '""'^  «-'• 
who  opposeth  and  e.alteth hZtw  *:  'Z^l  P^'""'™' 
God,  or  that  is  worshipped  ^O./  I  ^"  ***  '«  «a"ed 
o  God,  showing  himseKat  he  "sGo'd  '"^..'"'■'^  •*">?'« 
of  m.quity  doth  already  work  tLf  w'  .  7^"  ""^^'^'y 
vealed  whom  the  Lord  8han7„'  ^"''''''  ^'"'"  be  re- 

n>outh  and  destroy  wrhteurhT'"'^^  "'^^P'^"  »f  his 
yet  darker  day  tLn  tt  cWh\t  f "  ''°"'"^-"  ^ 
come.    He  that  opposeth  win  T  ^    '*^''  """«'  Arst 

to  strike  the  last  dT^tte^r^Hr  '"'^^' .-^-^^' 
the  working  of  Satah,  with  all  now        ^     '"'"S  >«  after 
wonders,  and  with  all'decltbWorut'^:  ™'  '^"^ 
Evil  men  and  seducers  sh«n  „"  ™righteousces8." 

-iving  and  being  dec   vfd  "    "T,;""?"  »1  -orse,  de- 
last  days  perilous  times  sh„'ll  .f  ^''°"''  '"""t  in  the 

a  cata,og„P  of  sms  SI  i  tdT/       ^''^  "'^''  '"""^^ 
racterize  those  "la^tdav,"     a        °"''  *''■<'''  *"»  "ha- 
Jastdays.      Agam  we  hear  of  "  mockers 


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528 


THE    FOOT-PRINTS  OP  SATAN. 


I 


in  the  last  time,"  of  «  scoffers,  walking  after  their  own 
lusts,  and  of  the  "mystery  of  iniquity."  It  will  be  a 
dark  day-the  great  and  dreadful  conflict  that  shaU 
herald  the  glorious  advent  of  our  king.  It  wiU  be  the 
thick  darkness  that  precedes  the  dawn  of  the  millennial 
glory.  Akeady  we  seem  to  see  through  that  dark  inter- 
venmg  cloud  the  speedy  approach  of  a  glorious  day  to  Zi- 
on-the  no  distant  triumph  of  light  over  the  power  and 
prmce  of  darkness.  Come,  Lord  Jesus,  come  quickly, 
tor_  t^e  whole  creation  groaneth  and  travaileth  In  pain 
waitmg  dehverance  from  thee. 

And  more  than  this  may  we  expect.    We  are  promised 
B.  physical  deliverance,  a  material  renovation  of  this  earth 
which  shaU  remove  aU  natural  evils,  take  away  the  thorn 
and  the  briar,  the  desert,  the  earthqr.ake  and  the  tor- 
nado, which  shall  repair  the  physical  ruins  of  the  faU  and 
restore  the  earth  to  its  primeval,  Eden  state.    The  earth 
Itself  shall  be  renovated  and  beautified,  shaU  undergo  a 
change  analogous  to  that  which  takes  place  in  the  spiritu- 
al world.     The  long  and  dreary  winter  of  six  thousand 
years  shall  pass  away.     Plagues,  dearths,  tempests,  fam- 
ines shall  be  known  no  more.     The  flowers,  the  fruits,  the 
beauty,   the  salubrity  of  Eden  uncursed,  shaU  abound 
and  the  earth  again  be  a  paradise  and  a  fit  habitation  for 
the  sons  of  God.    The  curse  shaU  be  removed.    The 
earth  shall  be  physically  redeemed,  when  the  very  "  de- 
sert shall  rejoice  and  blossom  as  the  rose,"  when  the 
taint  shall  be  removed  from  the  atmosphere  and  fhe 
malaria  from  the  ground."     When  tempests  and  torna- 
does ShaU  cease  to  rage  and  volcanoes  shall  rend  the 
earth  no  more. 

"  We,  according  to  his  promise,  look  for  new  heavens 
and  a  new  earth,  wherein  dwelleth  righteousness ;  new- 
i.  e.,  renewed,  restored  to  its  original  fertUity  and  beauty 
—purified  by  fire,  and  made  again  what  it  was  when  he 


;er  their  own 
It  will  be  a 
it  that  shall 
[t  will  be  the 
he  millennial 
it  dark  inter- 
ns day  to  Zi- 
B  power  and 
ome  quickly, 
leth  In  pain, 

are  promised 
of  this  earth 
ay  the  thorn 
and  the  tor- 
f  the  fall  and 
The  earth 
11  undergo  a 
1  the  spiritu- 
iix  thousand 
mpests,  fam- 
he  fruits,  the 
lail  abound 
abitation  for 
Qoved.  The 
e  very  '*  de- 
,"  when  the 
sre  and  the 
and  toma- 
ill  rend  the 

lew  heavens 

ness ;  new — 

and  beauty 

raswhen  he 


PARADISE  BEGAINED. 


that  created  it  r^^.r.  "''"'  '        ^^9 

defect  or  deformftvlT"^  ""  *°  be  ".ood"    ^-.t, 
«e«s  of  heat  or  co^'  T^  ^"^^^^^ss  or  deser";:  .  '^'"* 
storm  or  temr.   7^'  ^°  devastations  bv  ™-  ?       '  ^^  ^x- 

-^  „,  „,„.  "-t  .nte,eate  and  «.«  s^ttCp"  " 

Such  a  condition  of  ft.  ^^ 

n  tnat  brings  forth  all  tho,   '  ™®  ^'d's.    The 

01  man  and  mair„  i,-  "  """'"anmaJie  elad  fi,^  i, 
g^den  of  the  Wd     |r  ""v'"  ^''»«-  *al)  bf't'T' 

'J'  a^ts  "  nT'„  ^*  """'  -ri'e  holiness  to  th    r 
life-all  !i,         ^"  ^^oo'-fy  aU  the  rliT      *°  ^™<'  "n 

foreshadowed  ov^i'"""'^^  °f  holinest  'hat'tl  """"  '« 

wards  n^an."  '^'"''  »"  »  -rth  peace,  good  ^i^to? 

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630 


THE  FOOT-PBINTS  OP  SATAN. 


Human  government,  civilization,  science,  learning, 
commerce,  war  and  peace,  which  had  so  long  done  Uttle 
else  than  to  add  power  to  the  original  curse  and  intensify 
its  penalties,  shall  henceforth  become  most  efficient 
agencies  for  good  in  the  new  kingdom.  The  majesty  of 
law  shall  no  longer  be  trampled  under  foot,  or  the  judi- 
ciary be  corrupted,  or  the  guilty  allowed  to  go  un- 
punished.  Manners,  customs,  habits,  fashions,  pleasures, 
recreations  and  all  the  socialities  of  life,  shall  become  sub- 
servient to  tho  honor  of  God  and  the  highest  good  of 
man. 

Bat  one  aspect  of  the  subject  just  alluded  to  desei-ves 
more  than  a  casual  glance.  We  have  traced  the  desolat- 
ing fooistc^js  of  our  enemy  in  man's  social  life.  Human 
happiness  is  v  ery  much  suspended  here.  If  tares  be  sown 
on  this  field,  man  has  Httle  to  expect  but  a  bitter  harvest. 
Yet  true  it  is,  as  we  have  seen,  that  here  our  enemy  has 
perpetrated  some  of  his  saddest  devastations. 

IV.  Let  us  then  see  if  we  can,  on  the  other  hand,  trace 
the  footsteps  of  grace  as  she  comes  again  to  repair  the 
ruins  of  the  apostasy.  What  has  grace  done  for  us 
here? 

The  venou  of  sin  has  spread  through  all  the  veins 
and  arteries  of  society,  corroding  it  to  its  very  vitals.  It 
made  selfishness  the  watchword  of  every  little  community, 
and  set  the  green-eyed  monster,  Jealousy,  to  watch  at 
every  door.  It  planted  deep  the  tree  of  discord,  and 
caused  to  spring  up  in  every  nook  and  corner  the  un- 
sightly plants  of  envy,  pride,  ambition  and  distrust. 
Confidence  was  exiled,  and  the  world  set  on  fire  by  the 
tongue  of  slander.  Thus  did  sin  reign  in  man's  social  re- 
lations unto  the  workings  and  wranglings  of  a  hngering 
death.  In  proportion  to  the  prevalence  of  vice,  our  social 
relations  are  vitiated  and  wretched.  Not  a  single  social 
virtue  can  thrive— can  expand  into  its  own  native  beauty 


U^ 


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BHpBH. 

f|^|^H^^| 

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fiw 

'^m 

SOCIETY  MADE  HAPPY. 


681 


or  gives  it  a  i^W  di^;crn  ^  P".  "■"''' '''"""°" 
banishes  jealousy     Sl,„  '  ''^*"'eamhea  enyy  and 

■mage  of  <«r  maternal  oS^Tif'^'  "^  ''^'"^g  «»« 
maid,  humility  her  eoS"    ^T™'^""*  ^  •>«  l"""!- 

com.tenance.  Vuud  Zut  t    ^°^'  ""'  ^^'  »*  ^^ 
m  all  the  charm  and  and  1,2         ^°"  """^  see,  sportmg 
Joy,  Peace,  Long"  uffeir«  T  °'  'P'"'»»'  '*' Love! 
Meekness,  Tempirrifwtr^'  '^°'«^^^^'  ^^'i 
ttey  need  no  law     tL,  t  *'"'  "»"'«  «  "o  law- 

f  m. te  .orC; P "dlTothtChutl  *"  ""t  °™  ■- 
mony-good  will  towards  manS  ,        ™  """^  ''^"no- 

Adorned  with  these  gddeTCsof'^  '"  ^°''- 
be  otherwise  than  happy     «?„ '        ^"f  """'^'^  """"ot 
«>«,  and  triumphs  ovfr'evervl    "  *  ?'f  ^  **"«'«  !^«« 
a  place  where  aU  the  2;^!?  T'  """^  ^  »^  '""ow  you 
beautifully  developtrthal  t^^C'  ™'T  ^'^  - 
'"'PP^^  B«' we  inquire  again       '^'^^'^    "  *"°^'"'«' 
oha;ac;r;'  "'  '"^  -Wovemeuts  of  grace  on  individual 

Sin  hath  put  enmity  between  P„j      j 
man  an  aUen  and  an  enLTZtn  il     T^  """''•  """^o 
of  the  duties  of  life  uS^T^''^  "i™  *or  the  discharge 

•tenaity.  Sin  hT  w' f,  tho^'m:"  "'""  ""'''^ 
body  is  subject  to  disease  Li  j."  ""  "™«-  His 
but  the  wreik  of  tharilf^.-^''  ^'"^^  »"<!  ^is  soul 
-to  the  earthly  tenetC tfu"'  "''*  '^'  '''^'^^ 

---:rt:^iret\"ri^r  ^t^^--^ 

open  ^g'^a  communioation:irhS.r;nra" 


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THE    FOOT-PRINTS  OF  SATAN. 


friendship  with  his  God,  and  to  fit  him,  by  the  washing  of 
regeneration  and  the  renewing  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  for  the 
companionship  of  angels,  and  to  open  to  him  the  portals 
of  heaven.  Grace  kindly  offers  to  shield  him  from  a 
thousand  ills  in  this  life,  to  make  him  a  better  man,  more 
happy  and  more  honorable  in  every  station — to  be  an 
angel  of  mercy  to  comfort  and  protect  him  in  the  last 
dark  hour  of  death — to  go  with  him  through  the  dark 
valley,  and  finally  to  present  him  faultless  before  the  pre- 
sence of  his  glory  with  exceeding  joy. 

What  then  are  we  to  conclude  shall  be  the  final  and 
eternal  condition  and  destiny  of  this  earth  ?  It  shall 
undergo  a  very  essential  revolution,  a  purification  by  fire 
— sometimes  called  a  destruction — so  completely  changed 
that  it  is  called  a  "  new  earth."  It  shall  become  a  fit 
temple  for  holiness,  the  habitation  of  righteousness  and 
peace  and  purity,  a  suitable  dwelling-place  for  the  sons  of 
God.  Sin  and  all  its  corruption  and  disquietude,  and 
rebellion,  and  misery  and  death,  once  banished  from  the 
earth  and  its  regeneration  once  consummated,  and  this  is 
the  "  restitution  of  all  things  "  to  their  primeval  beauty 
and  perfection.  And  being  once  so  restored,  what  shall  be 
its  future  and  eternal  destination  ? 

Before  we  urge  a  reply  let  us  ask  what  shall  be  the  fu- 
ture local  destination  of  man  ?  The  renovation  of  the 
earth,  we  may  assume,  is  but  the  noteworthy  counterpart 
of  the  renovation  of  man.  And  as  the  earth,  and  all 
things  pertaining  thereunto,  were  originally  made  for 
man,  and  as  man  and  the  earth  mutually  shared  the 
curse,  for  "  together  they  groan  and  travail  in  pain,"  what 
is  more  probable  than  that  they  shall  be  finally  and  for- 
ever united  in  their  future  destiny?  This  planet  earth 
is  the  home  of  our  race.  Born  here,  nurtured  here — re- 
joiced, suffered  and  sorrowed  here — character,  associa- 
tions and  friendships  formed  here — here  Christ  came, 


SiABTH  KAH'S  EIEBNai,  HOMB.  UBt 

BO  sao^d  and  d;r";:tlT™r  T'"''  '"^°'"*''°- 
eternal  happy  home?    m        T*'*  man  choose  his 

abode  so  bX^oon^tZ?^"  """'''  "«  ^^  «» 
shall  everywhere  siL  "  ai       .    ^  .  *^^  *°S^^^°  ^^^oi' 

earth  peaerg:r:::ttow^^m':n^f^^«'«'^«''-'.'>" 

mortt~r,r;ea"Lrd' ''^'^  '^  -"« '"-« 

tent  reader!  are  ruined  foCer  It  !'  Z^""  ""^  '"P""' 
wioked  heart,  it  mnst  br^g™^  in'o^rTr  ^"^ 
.-  onl,  W  and  Mas^J.  "^  ^te^^e^St 

rubTas'rrit'rSnd  r  ^'r  ^-^  *"-" 

1  uiH  love.    If  grace  has  done  so  much  for  vmi  ^r,^  ^ 
have  as  yet  done  so  little  for  yourself  on  wW  IT" 

you  hope  you  shall  not  be  a  l7oulZ  Ind  if  7^  ^' 
eternal  despair,  and  suffer  the  jusrllut  of  '^^^ 
love  and  a  violated  law?  ^        ^  ""^  *^"««^ 

y^zL'^r^i^]^'^,  '""""r  '"•*  ^  no- 
where sinhath  i'^^i^if:::^"*xrt''r- 

reign  unto  eternal  life  ^  '  ^®*  ^*°® 


534 


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the  earth  put  on  her  robes  of  beauty  and  be  made  the 
abode  of  Christ  and  his  ransomed  ones.  May  we  ill  be 
of  the  blessed  number  to  whom  upon  his  coming  he  will 
say,  "  Bise  up  and  come  away." 


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INDEX. 


Abuse  of  wealth 2I6 

Adam's  temptation  and  sin.    " "    28 

Ambition  perverted 221  446 

Amusements,  cost  of  . ,  '  251 

Ancients,  wealtii  of  the  .'.'."  283,  285 

Ancient  extravagance 272,  274 

Ancient  wars,  losses 


Christianity  a  new  revelation..  79 
Ohmtianity  made  for  man....  350 
Cml  war  in  U.S.,  cost  of.  II2.  121 
t^aurch,    persecutions    of   Uie 

early g^ 

Church-services  perverted .        ' 


™iv;ioui,  wars,  losses  in . . ..  115  ioq    r-u-  ^  I'ervertea 312 

Apostasy,  the  beginning  of    vil'  c'^''^  ^''''  *^« 493 

-the  first ... .  27   ^°'''°'«°°°'  supremacy  of 441 

Apostasy,  Papal ... .  '  p^"^''«nt8.  Beads  and  rosary .       394 

Appalling  facts  of  intemperance  15?   p      ""'"'''  Insurrection  in  Paris  47« 
*„„„.,,._.._       ..  "  ^«"»mon  schools,  war  upon         sn 

Conquest,  the  final  and  complete 

Consecrated  wealth 283,380 

Constantino  unites  the  Church 

and  State 39 

Corn  as  food  versus  liquor  .      ' "  1G9 

Corrupt  literature  ... .  ■"  o^ 

^^^^^^  Cost  of  crime \\' ' g^g 

Benevolence,  the  world's  '. '.  ".'.V."  236  I  nil  !f  ?^*^«n  temples .'.'.'.'.]  287 


Assaults  upon  the  early  Church    81 
Angels,  Satan  once  the  chief  of    26 

Bad  Passions ....  445 

Baron   Bothschild   the   money 

King 

Beauties  of  a  good  life 
Benevolent  aliections 


246 
203 


Betrayal  of  Christ 
Bible  a  sealed  book,  the  . 
Bible,  prohibition  of 
Bible 


..  35 
92,  361 
404 


no  authority,  the 409 


Cost  of  Intemperance 153  igj 

Cost  of  war  to  Great  Britain 
since  the  Beformation 
Cnmean  War,  cost  of 


Bible,  war  upon  thL       t,A  S'"""^  °^  England,  value  of. ". 

Brahminism  ...  ^tzl  ^unnmg  and  craftmess  of 


Badc'LJsm 


Christ's   temptation 
mount  .... 


on    the 


362 
415 


34 


Devil 


the 


97 
222 
269 

44 


Christ  forewarns  the  Disoiples*.'    84 


Daniel  and  his  times .  335 

Deaths  by  Papal  persecution  *. "  411 
Death  record  in  New  York,  1871  503 
Debts  and  statistics— war 


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INDEX. 


FAQS 

Demoniao  spirits 34 

Devil,  origin  of  tiie 26 

Devil,  expulsion  from  heaven ...  21 

Devil,  God  created  him  an  angel  27 

Devil'/ who  is  the 22 

Devil  ?  where  is  the 23 

Devil,  names  given  to  the 18 

Devil,  his  tremendous  power...  24 

Devil,  his  attributes,  the 24 

Devil,  cunning  and  craftiness  of 

the 44 

Devil,  his  characteristics,  the..  25 

Devil,  his  deceptions,  the 35 

Devil,  his  delusions,  the 37 

Devil,  his  imitation  of  miracles.  35 

Devil,  his  power  of  locomotion.  32 

Devil,  his  physical  powers,  the..  31 

Devil  god  of  this  world,  the ... .  17 

Devil  once  the  chief  of  angels .  26 

Devil  before  the  Deluge,  the  . .  69 

Devfl  in  Bible  times,  the 58 

Devil  in  Old  Testament  times.  69 

62 
24 


64 
50 


Devil  before  Sinai,  the 

Devil,  his  miracles  wrought,  the 
Devil,  he  turns  the  nations  of 

the  earth  to  idolatry  . . 
Devil  in  New  Testament  times 
Devil,   his    corruption    of  the 

Church 71 

Deva  in  «  Latter  times,"  the. . .  474 

Devilin  man,  the 436 

Devil  in  New  York,  the 503 

Devil,  the  end  of  the 518 

DiHasters  on  land  and  sea. .  190, 500 
Dishonesty  of  the  liquor  traflac.  173 

Divorce  and  divorce  laws 466 

Dogma  of  infallibility.  136,  372,  488 
Dollars  for  ribbons,  pennies  fbr 

Ohrist 283 

Draft  Biot  of  1863  in  New  York  478 
Dr.  Doff  oja  sporioua  religions.  382 


VAoa 
Ecumenical  Oooncil  of 

Borne 487 

Eden  restored 532 

Egyptian  mythology 377 

Elijah's  contest  with  Baal 36 

Eloquence,  power  of 199 

Examples  of  good  and  bad  lives 

contrasted 200 

Exorbitant  salaries  , 249,  266 

Expenses  of  royalty 268,  273 

Expenses,  Queen  of  England  . .  265 
Expenses,  Sultan  of  Turkey ...  271 
Expenses  of  the  United  States 

Gbvemment 98 

Extravagance  in  fashionable  so- 
ciety..... 278 

Extiavaganceti  in  high  place.s  ..  219, 

243,  486 
Extravagance  of  great  estates. .  244, 

276 
Extntvagance    versus    benevo- 
lence    237,  282 

JFcUse  religions,  common  ori- 
gin of 353 

Famine,  fire  and  floods 131,  490 

Fast  yoimg  men 280,  471 

Fire  worshippers 329 

Fisk,  Stokes'  assassination  of. ..  504 

Final  triumph  of  peace 620 

Fourrierism 461 

Free  love  and  its  evils 461 

Fruits  of  monicipal  corruption.  485 

Funeral  extravagance  .' 250 

Future  punishment 454 

CHant  intellects  perverted....  198 

"  Girls  of  the  period  " 471 

God,  perfect  law  of 46 

God  speaking  in  nature 317 

Goddess  Fashion,  the 486 

Gambling  hells  and  crime  ....    264 


iv:'Ji»  m. 


Ja^ 


VAoa 
inoil  of 

487 

632 

377 

a 36 

199 

od  lives 
200 

. .  249,  266 

. .  268,  273 
land  . .  265 
key...  271 

States 


INDEX. 


ible  Bo- 

278 

ace.s  ..  219, 
243,  486 
ates..  244, 
276 
•enevo- 
. .  237,  282 

>n  ori- 

353 

..  131,490 
. .  280,  471 

329 

a  of...  504 

520 

461 

461 

ption.  485 

250 

454 

ed....  198 

471 

46 

317 

486 

....    264 


637 


Hand  of  the  DevU  in  history     i  J I  i„t,„ 
Hindooism  ....  "^^^,    19  Intemperance  i 


m  JJreat  Britain  165 
167 


History  of  fake'  ;«iig;-on; J^A  J^J^^^Pa^nce  in  France 

History  of  idolatryT". . .    I A  ^*«™P««»nce,  com  as  food  mr- 

History,  perversion  of     * "  210  %m\t  ^         *^  ^^"^o' 1P9 

History,  Papal  perversion  ;f'  on    "^"^"^^^^'^^  loss  to  the  "" 

Historic  religion  ' "'  *""" 


tion. 


ma- 


Holy  Spirit,  necessity  of" ^e'"*  JJ  ( ^**^P«»°<'«.  Judidai'ies'timo.' 

Horrors  of  theearlypersecutions    87 
Hynm  read  by  St  Paul  on  Mars' 

^ 348 


170, 181 


ny  on  liquor  and  crime  186 
Intemperance,  yearly  fruits  of 


Intemperance  a  foe  to  natioS'^" 


prosperity ^yg 

Intemperance,  physical  elTe^to 

of 1^ 

Intemperance,    its  


effects 


on 


mmd  and  morals  .  iaq 

Intemperance    the    author'" 


of 


shocking  disasters ... .  199 


Jrfo/a«ry,  history  of....  335 

Income  of  the  Pope  of  Bom;;  .'272 
Income  of  Queen  Victoria....  265 
J^r^^^^^^^ign potentates...  273 
Inialhbility,  the  dogma  of  .  95, 136, 

Infidel  publications....        ^^^'^f 

legitimacy  and  divorce  ...'."*  469  I  r-^w* 

Inordinate  desires  J^    !:  ^    *'  ^"^^  "»»  o^  «ie.  93   S44 

Inquisition,  the  t!   f  «'"*'«»,  character  of 4,  J 

Intellect  and  busin'ess' .■.;;. 207      ''"^*^"'  ^°'^'^ti' 

Intellect,  perversion  of  the   "194 

Instigators  ofwar,  who  are  ih;y?  130 
Intemperance  a  terrific  agency 

for  evil --. 

Intemperance,  1870,  statistics' 


ly, 


ion  and  histo- 


421 


— r.-.v.„„„,  ^ai\),  Statistics  Of 

distilled  liquors  . .  jgo 

Intemperance.  starUine  8fa.«««l 


Jesuitism,  subtilty  of  . .  .'.*.'."." ' '  403 
Jesuitism,  animus  of  ... . 
Jesuitism  and  mission^w  * 

Jewish  religion,  the 

Job  the  early  religious  hi'stoi"  320 
Judas,  the  accursed  kiss  of . .        3^ 


425 
426 
325 


cal  comparisons . .  irJ   '"*'*''*^  testimony  onliquorand 


Intemperance,    yearli^"°cost"of  ^^^ 

Int«mn  ^'^""'"^'^  United  States  153 
Intemperance  and  labor .  155 

Intemperance,    appalling*  facte 

from  New  York  ...        157 

Intemperance,  internal  revenue 

statistics... 160   229 

Intemperance,  statistics  of  malt 

^quorsm  United  States  161 

Intemperance,  statistics  of  New 

^o'J'city igg 


orune 


186 

Kings  and  queens,  salaries  of  273 

iaw  of  God  perfect,  the.....    43 
Laws  of  nature  contravened.       443 

Lax  laws  of  divorce '459 

I'fianied  professions,  the  . .'.' ' "  204 

Liberal  Ohristiauiiy 489 

Libraries  open  on  the  Sabblth*  510 
Licentiousness  in  high  places..  486 
Licentious  literature 304,  516 


LJ 


\  • 


538 


INDEX. 


PAOS 

Liqnor    statistios     of     United 

States 152 

Literary  talents  perverted 207 

Lives  of  great  men  contrasted  .  202 
Loss  of  life  in  ancient  and  mo- 
dem wars 116 

Lather  and  the  Beformation. . .  92 
Luxury  versus  poverty 245 

Man  the  image  of  Gk>d. .  436, 451 
Man  in  every  sense  perverted. ..  438 
Man  cannot  restore  himself  .^. . .  453 
Magnitude  and  mischief  of  sin.    42 

Marriage,  the  sanctity  of 458 

Marriage  makes  home 460 

Martyrdom  of  the  Apostles  ...  85 
Mental  resonrc&s  and  activities.  195 
Medical  testimony  on  spiritoos 

liquors 188 

Milton  and  Dante,  ideas  of. .  26,  29 
Missionary  appropriations  ...   .  237 

Modem  extravagance 242 

Mohammedanism 357 

Money  perverted — see  (wealth) .  215 

Money  misdirected 218 

Money  wickedly  applied 222 

Money  expended  in  liquor 226 

Money  expended  in  opium 234 

Money  expended  in  tobacco ....  231 

Money  expended  in  wars 223 

Money  spent  in  amusements . . . 
Money  spent  in  war  might  do, 

what 101 

Money  and  the  Church 380 

Moral  effects  of  intemperance 

164,183 

Mormonism 357, 461 

Music,  perversion  of 209,  310 

Mythology,  Egyptian 367 

Na/mea  given  to  the  DeviL ...  18 
New  Jerusalem,  the 274 


CM! 

Nero,  the  Boman  tyrant 86 

Opera  and  Oburoh,  the 311 

Opium  and  its  effects 176 

Opium,  statistics  of 235 

Origin  of  false  Religions..  316,  353 

Origin  of  idolatry 325,  353 

Osiris,  the  Egyptian  Messiah. .  344 

Paganism  a  false  BeUgion.  356 

Papal  apostasy,  the 75 

Papacy  and  Paganism 388 

Papal  persecutions 410 

Papal  prayers  for  the  deceased..  401 
Papal  perversion  of  history ....  210 
Paradise  changed  to  a  pandimo- 

nium 33 

Paradise  regained 522 

Patriarchal  religion 318 

Purgatory,  the  doctrine  of 399- 

Perversion  of  history 210,  307 

Perversion    of    the    periodical 

Press 295 

Perversion  of  religion,  the 353 

Perversion  of  the  religious  Press  299 

Perversion  of  speech,  the 308 

Perversion  of  Literary  talent,  the  207 

Perversion  of  intellect,  the 194 

Perversion  of  wealth,  the 215 

Perversion  of  music  and  song, 

the 209,  315 

Persecutions,  the  ten  first 86 

Persecutions   of    the    Bomish 

Church 410 

Peter's  denial 36 

Pilgrimage  the  trae  idea 377 

Politics  and  poUtioians 73 

Pope  of  Bome,  income  of 272 

Popery  the  groat  counterfeit . . .  3b9 
Popery  and  waste  of  money.. . .  288 

Popular  notions  of  Satan 26 

Power  of  a  good  life,  the 203 


VAOK 

86 

> 311 

175 

235 

..  316,  353 
. .  325,  353 
isiah . .  SH 

Ligion.  356 

75 

388 

410 

eased..  401 
)ry....  210 
udimo- 

33 

522 

318 

{.....  399 
..  210,307 
iodioal 

295 

1 353 

J  Press  299 

) 308 

lut,  the  207 

le 194 

1 215 

I  song, 
. .  209.  315 

t 86 

lomish 

410 

35 

377 

73 

f 272 

feit...  3b9 
ley....  288 
; 26 


INDEX. 


Moil 


Power  of  eloqnenoe,  the ... .       199 1  om^,^ 

Power  of  religion,  the.  '     sik  I  „  T**^  profenation  of  the 

Powerof  speech,  the... onj 

Power  of  the  printing  PreJa";::  293 
^de  the  sin  of  apostate  angels    89 

^ysical  effects  of  intemper^eelS 
"ide  and  Tanity  ....  ^ 

^fligaoy,  the onrse ot"....'.  "473 

Progressive  revelation  339 

Prohibition  of  the  Bible '.*."'" 

Protestant  extravagance  .... 


539 

fAon 
610 


404 
290 


[Saonfloes   of    the    North   and 

South  in  the  oivU  war..  I19 

^es  of  European  monarohs.  273 
Sanctity  of  manage.  IZ 

Satan  had  no  tempter... 00 

Satan  leads  tixe  revolt  in  heaven    28 
Satan  m  false  religions 314 

Satan  in  the  early  Church .' 

Satan  8  power  over  the  elements 

Satan  in  the  marriage  relation 

Satamo  majesty  alanned.  his    ' 
ontan  in  war 


78 
33 
457 
474 


Queen  of  England's  salary...  265 

^formaHwi,  tiv. 37  92  ?^' ^^^ "Pwsentedas' black    30 

Beligion  and  science  ....  aS  S'"''"'  '^^  *™«  "^o"  .213 

Begal  extravagance 261  276   ?°^  P«nrersion  of  tiie  five    '  439 

Religions,  history  of  false  ...      363   S^'f  ^"^"^y^^'  «»«•..."  455 
B^ue  of  lost  truths  ...... .       ^A^"^  ''''^^^  npon  the  humai 

Itestitiition  of  all  things 520 '"•     •      ^^^^ 


52 
521 


Bevelationsfrom  Sinai  .■.;;'.'"  346   f!''^J*^«dwiaiallexi8tii;g;vii 
Revolt  in  heaven  led  by  Satan '    2ft    T"  ^^  "^"^  °^  ^  human 

Biot  12«i  of  July,  1871,  upon 

"Orangemen" 479 

Bites  and  ceremonies  offals^ 

worshippera..  330,  358,  429 

Bomanoe  and  fiction 307 

Bomanismafalse  wligion.       '  seo 

Eomish  Church  in  America,  the    94 
Komanism  and  crime  . .  468 

Bomi^  festivals  and  holy  ^^8.*  391 
Bomiah  hostility  to  the  Bible 

Bomish  priesthood  chum  mi^  *°^  feu^'^''^°''°^  •••••*•'.*  209, 

oles Speech,  perversion  of ggg 

Bomanism  resembles  Pagani;  403   S^'"'°^«'» V;.  4^4 

Buiu  repaired, the..... T^Sefi-^^'"*^ 39 

^  «>«  8-t  destroyer  1^'         it":^:^ :^,'Z''^  ■ ' ' '  353 

m  190.  227  Statistics  of^orTndint-Jml^' 
*^*^^°^^^'*^« Hspaniards^^ri^Sg^S^J^l 


48 


47 


54 

55 

Sir.  „u  "*  **"  ""man  woe    44 

8m,  why  permitted.  40 

Sin.  as  affecting  our  relations  to 
God. 

Sin  as  affecting  hunm  gOTe^I 
ment 

Sin  as  aflfeotingour'social'rela^ 

tions 

Sin,  the  worst  of. . . 

Sin  as  affecting  di^negOTern- 

ment ^ 

Smoking,  effects  of . .         1^ 

Socialism  '*' 

461 

310 


640 


INDEX. 


Moa 
Supremacy  of  oonsoienoe 441 

Tammany  Bing. 480 

Tammany  frauds 482 

Theatres  and  their  cost 263 

lobaooo  statistios 177,  231 

True  religion,  history  of 343 

Triumph  of  righteoosaess,  the 

final 624 

UMverseU  reign  of  righteous- 
ness and  peace 

UnrighteoQS  inTestments 261 

Untold  evils  of  intemperance  . .  164 

Untold  evils  of  war. 123 

UsQiper,  deposed  and  oast  out, 

the ... 

Use  and  abuse  of  wealth 216 

United  States  census  statistics 

of  liquor 162 

Vanity  and  pride 450 

Value  of  the  crown  of  England  268 

TFar— its  untold  evils 123 

War,  the  expense  of 96 

War,  revolution   not  reformat 

tion 127 

War,  its  moral  devastations.  .^.V  132 

War,  its  desolations 139 

War,  its  demoralizing  effects ...  143 
War  contradicts  Ohristianity...  147 

War  as  an  art  perfected Ill 

War,  who  are  the  instigators  of.  130 
War-debts,  who  pays  them  ?. . ..  106 
War,  with    startling  comi>ari- 

sons 107 

War  and  agriculture 109 

War  and  benevolence 108 

WarKlAt  of  Christian  nations 

97, 102 
War  and  public  debt  of  Europe^  103 


9tam 

War— strength  of  ancient  armies  128 
War,  cost  of  standing  armies...  224 
Wars,  sacrifice  of  life  in  ancient 

116, 128 
War,  cost  of  the  Bevolutionary.    97 

War,  the  cost  of  1812 97 

War,  cost  of  the  Florida 97 

War,  cost  of  the  Mexican 97 

War,  cost  and  losses  of  the  Ci- 
vil, 1861-5. . .  112, 121,  188 
War,  horrors  of  Libby  Prison 

and  Andersonville  126,  138 

Wars,  cost  of  European 99, 223 

Wars,  cost  of  Indian 100 

Wars,  saoriAoes  of  life  in  Napo- 
leon's.   Ill 

War-saying  of  Napoleon  Bona- 
parte    144 

War,  cost  of  Italian 223 

War,  cost  of  the  Franco-Prus- 
sian    114,  136 

War,  statistics  by  Baron  Von 

Beden 109 

War,  temptations   of  military 

life 145 

War,  no  necessity  of 148 

War,    duty  of  Christians  con- 
cerning    149 

Wealth,  see  Money 216 

Wealth  consecrated 380 

Wealth,  perversion  of 216 

Wealth  versus  poverty 245 

Wealth  of  the  anoiente 283,  286 

Wealth,  vraste  of,  in  Pagan  Beli- 

gion 266,288 

Wealth,  waste  of,  in  Chinese 

worship 268 

Wealth,  waste  of,  in  the  Bomish 

Church 259,  288 

Wealth,  waste  of,  in  the  Protest- 
ant Church 290 

Wedding  extravagance 219 


INDEX. 


9tam 

banuies  128 
rmies...  224 
anoient 

116,  128 
donaxy.    97 

97 

97 

Q 97 

Oie  Oi- 
12, 121,  138 
Prinon 
Ue  126,  138 
...  99,223 

100 

iNapo- 

Ill 

Bona- 

141 

223 

o-Prns- 
.   114,  136 
>n  Von 

109 

lilitaiy 

145 

148 

IS  oon- 

149 

215 

380 

216 

245 

..283,285 
aBeli- 
..256,288 
Chinese 

268 

iomish 
..  259,288 

290 

219 


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158,172 

Zoroaster  founds  a  new  reli- 

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